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To: tejek who wrote (340722)	6/19/2007 4:49:09 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571775

Re: What are the percentages? How many French speakers in the Flemish suburbs and Flemish in the French arrondissements? 35. French-speaking politicians put the number of French-speakers in the Brussels-periphery at approx. 120.000, of which 40.000 live in the six communes with linguistic facilities, and 80.000 in communes without. Many French-speaking politicians complain that they feel like “strangers in their own country”. For example, the Flemish Community, on the one hand, is unwilling to subsidise any French-speaking activities (e.g. in the cultural, sport or youth field), because the Flemish want the Brussels-periphery to be a monolingual, culturally homogeneous region. On the other hand, the Flemish Community also claims that no other Community or Region has the right to subsidise these activities (because of the territoriality principle). The French-speaking politicians disown this as an unwillingness to live together peacefully, and demand that – since the Flemish Community is unwilling to subsidise these activities - the French Community be allowed to do so. They would also like to see the territoriality principle less strictly applied in general. assembly.coe.int