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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Congrats, you are now Flemish!

    To give some context: in Belgium there is two main regions, Flanders and Wallonia. Flemish people speaks Flemish Dutch and Walloons speak French.

    Since Flemish Dutch and French are the two official language of Belgium a lot of Fleming are learning French as a secondary language to be able to communicate with Walloons. Walloons on the other hand don’t care to learn Flemish Dutch at all.

    So as consequence a lot of Flemish do know French but refuse to speak French with Walloons.

    So as a French person I ended several time in a situation where I’m trying to communicate in English with a Fleming who refuse to use French with me, until he realize by my accent that I’m not Walloons, then he would start speaking to me in French.





  • To give a bit of context :

    • the previous government (prime minister and the other ministers) drafted a budget proposal last summer that was widely unpopular among the population and most deputies in the national assembly.
    • the previous prime minister asked for a vote of confidence, lost the vote of confidence so the whole government resigned
    • Macron appoints a new prime minister, this new prime minister promises a new policy line that will break with the old government.
    • After 26 days, the new prime minister reveals the name of the new ministers that will form the new government. It’s mostly the same names as before.
    • 15 hours later he resigned, so the new government is dissolved.