Posts Tagged “Belgium”
Belgium, a country that has tried to form a new government without a result for a year now, and a home for the European Union and NATO. Finnish journalist Janne Toivonen is doing a half a year deal as a trainee in the European parliament’s web communications. At the same time he’s keeping personal blog [...]
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- Tagged as: Belgium • blog • EU • Europe • Janne Toivonen
Check out this demented map depicting borderlines between the Netherlands (white) and Belgium (yellow) in a village of Baarle: Yes, it’s sad but true. Due to some complex medieval treaties, the borders of the village Baarle got skewed, to say the least. This division into two countries has some interesting ramifications. First of all, you [...]
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- Tagged as: Belgium • border • China Miéville • enclave • EU • exclave • map • The Netherlands
