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Belgium is a small country in Europe, smaller in area than the state of Haryana. It shares its borders with France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg. The population of the nation is a little over one crore which is about half the population of Haryana. The ethnic composition of this small country is very complex. Of the country’s total population, 59 per cent live in the Flemish region and speak the Dutch language, and another 40 per cent people live in the Wallonia region and speak French. The remaining one per cent of the Belgians speak German. In the capital city Brussels, 80 per cent of people speak French while 20 per cent are Dutch speaking. The minority French-speaking community was relatively rich and powerful. This was resented by the Dutch-speaking community, who got the benefit of economic development and education much later. This led to tensions between the Dutch-speaking and French-speaking communities during the 1950 and 1960s. The tension between the two communities was more acute in Brussels. Brussels presented a special problem: the Dutch-speaking people constituted a majority in the country but a minority in the capital.

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