If Wallonia got more than its fair share in Canada's newly signed trade deal with Europe, you could say the same thing about its natural and man-made attractions. The French-speaking region of Belgium ...

EIB vice president Kris Peeters (left) with Willy Borsus, Vice President of Wallonia, during a signing ceremony Dec. 18. Credit: European Investment Bank TAMPA, Fla. — The European Investment Bank ...

NAMUR, Belgium (Reuters) - The Belgian fortress city of Namur, besieged by European armies down the centuries, issued a declaration of war on the global economic order on Friday with a vote to reject ...

The story of how Wallonia, a tiny French-speaking enclave of Belgium, emerged as the would-be slayer of the massive Canada-Europe free-trade deal is less about what is in the agreement than it is ...

Many in Belgium's Dutch-speaking north regard French-speaking southerners as a work-shy lot trapped in a sclerotic rust belt. They contrast Flanders' entrepreneurial, service-led economy to Wallonia's ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wallonia has a problem. It is not the French-speaking region’s economy, which is shrinking as a proportion of ...

It looks as if the Canada EU trade deal, Ceta, is now back on again as the French language and Walloon parts of the Belgian state agree that it can go ahead. I asked a couple of days ago whether this ...

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A major trade deal between the European Union and Canada is threatened by objections from Wallonia, a Belgian region which must back the pact in order for Brussels to sign on. But Wallonia’s economy ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Wallonia has a knack for both killing and curing people. Guns and drugs play a surprisingly prominent role in ...

Has Wallonia ever enjoyed such a high profile? Many who had previously ignored its existence are now frantically googling the Belgian region of 3.6 million after it singlehandedly blocked an EU trade ...

The Belgian region of Wallonia has vowed to block an EU trade deal with South America, foreshadowing the kind of barriers Britain will face as it tries to secure a quick agreement with the bloc. Elio ...