A version of this article appears in print on July 16, 2010, Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: A Region’s Language Divide Mirrors Belgium’s.

The population of Belgium is about eight millions, made up of four million Flemings in the north, three million French-speaking Walloons in the south, and about a million in central Belgium, around ...

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Parliamentary Vote Widens Divide Between Flemish- and French-Speaking Regions.

Flemish Liberal Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has led a caretaker government in the months since the June election. De Wever’s right-wing nationalist party claims as one of its missions the ...