The Flemish nationalist withdrawal

Luckas Vander Taelen, Belgian journalist and stage-manager, picks up on the controversial remarks made by the Flemish president-minister, Yves Leterme, who declared in a recent interview that the Walloons have little in common with Flemishes."So is there no-one in the Flanders region who understands that Francophones find themselves in doubt when the Flemish president-minister doesn't go beyond beer and football when asked what keeps us together in this country? This really doesn't indicate the least interest for culture in our country. But this double identity of which Leterme is, with a Walloon father and a Flemish mother, rather ironically one of the products, no longer interests him (...) Leterme will reap electoral benefits from these tough remarks, but I fear that with this kind of outburst, the Flanders region is  increasingly becoming withdrawn into itself."

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