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About Europe

To get informations about the European Union in French is not always easy, but for the radio, I advice you to listen to BFM (in Brussels on 107.6 FM)  This is a belgo-french radio of continuous informations (repetition is good!) focusing mainly on business, media, finance and... Europe.
(To get the program or listen to it online, visit the Web site of BFM :
http://www.bfm.be/2002/ or the site of BFM France : http://www.radiobfm.com/)

About Europe on television, there is Euronews that follows closely the European news on a daily basis with programs such as "Europa review", "EurOpinion", "Europeans", "Parlamento" and others.
The Internet site of Euronews is also very interesting with the possibility to watch recorded programs.  Please visit its site on : http://www.euronews.net

I see also TLB (Télé Bruxelles) which have two programs dedicated to Europe : "10 minutes pour l'Europe" (on Mondays 6:00-7:00 and 10:00-11h00) and "25" (on Sunday evenings at 18:45 and on Monday 11:00-17:25).
(To get the program, visit its Web site : http://www.telebruxelles.be/index.html )

There is also the interesting blog of the correspondent of the French newspaper Libération, Jean Quatremer : Coulisses de Bruxelles http://bruxelles.blogs.liberation.fr/

There is the online magazine Cafébabel that follows the European news (interesting you may find the articles in French but also in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Calatan and Polish) : http://www.cafebabel.com/fr/.

And the French Web portal, Toute l'Europe (but of course, only in French) : http://www.touteleurope.fr/

About Belgium

- Two Frenchman writing about Belgium...  Strange...  and rather interesting.

F. Bordes, G. de Pirey, La Belgique impertinente, Paris, Les Presses de l'Ecole des Mines, 2000

http://www.annales.org/gazette/gazette-8-05-01.html
http://www.ensmp.fr/Fr/Services/PressesENSMP/Collections/LibresOpinions/Livres/Belgique.html

- British humour to speak about the Belgians

Harry Pearson, A tall man in a low land.  Some time along the Belgians, Abacus, 1999
 (ISBN 0-349-11206-1)

If we don't cry... let's eat some goog "Belgian fries" :

http://www.tbx.be/fr/Dossier/187/app.rvb

If we don't eat... let's smile!

http://www.nicolasvadot.com/Vadot_FR/Dessins_Presse/Vif_Express/Crise_Belgique/Crise_2007.htm