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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the ground in the capital city of Namur, Wallonians reflect on the region’s economic decline and why it blocked the CETA trade agreement with Canada On Thursday, a minor landslide happened in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The longstanding economic importance of gunmaker FN Herstal to Wallonia poses some uncomfortable questions ...

The Wallonian capital Namur, where the Canada trade deal was derailed Has Wallonia ever enjoyed such a high profile? Many who had previously ignored its existence are now frantically googling the ...