Sir, – Your Editorial (November 18th) on Europe's far-right parties refers to "Belgium's Vlaams Belang (VB)". It would be more correct to refer to it as belonging to Flanders. Outside of Flanders, there is no support for this party whatsoever. The rest of Belgium is distinctly left-wing. Flanders also has another extremely right-wing party named NVA, which deserved a mention in your article. Many communes (local administrative areas) in Flanders do not allow their staff to speak French, although they have no problem with English being used, a policy which NVA promotes and supports.
It is Flanders that has a problem with bigotry and racism, not Belgium as a whole. – Yours, etc,
MICHAEL FINLAN,
Avenue du Geai,
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Watermael Boitsfort,
Belgium.