The French-speaking and Flemish media want to work together

On Saturday, December 16th, the daily published an appeal signed by Béatrice Delvaux and addressed to her colleague Peter Vandermeersch, who the previous day had denounced in the pages of the paper 'De Standaard' a lack of professionalism on the part of French-speaking media concerning communitarian questions. "Let it be known that we too [French-speaking Belgians] sometimes get fed up of clichés; fed up with being described as lazy unemployed who refuse to work; fed up of being presented as parasites on social security, happy to live off the Flemish workers; fed up of hearing that we are intellectually incapable of learning to speak Flemish. The caricature is not helping the debate to progress. It is killing it. So, dear Peter Vandermeersch ..., let us then put our critical minds and our professionalism together at the service of a big investigation of Belgium and its regions that we would publish before the elections." Peter Vandermeersch gave a positive response to the proposition.

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