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an ethnic group speaking a dialect of French and living in southern and eastern Belgium and neighboring parts of France

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Given the Walloons play at this depth has a history of success, there are no contingencies relating to the coal properties or the application of technology that prevent the contingent resources being classified as reserves.
ATP 2031 appears to be in a sweet-spot in the Walloons CSG fairway with contribution expected from both the shallower Juandah coals and the deeper Taroom coals.
Areas to the west and south-east of Project Range targeting the Walloons fairway with similar coal depths have consistently been brought into production at substantial rates.
Crisis talks have attempted to break the deadlock over the Walloon opposition to the EU-Canada CETA deal.
Playing down the prospect of Walloon resistance, he said: "We buy a whole load of produce from Walloon farmers, so therefore it is not going to be in their interests to see tariffs imposed.
In terms of multilingualism there are more Flemish who have learnt French, although the Walloons have also started learning Dutch, but only recently.20 Yet the need-based desire to learn a foreign language such as English is much more pronounced.
In Belgium, the friction between the two main linguistic groups, the Flemish and the Walloons does not have parallels elsewhere in Europe.
The name of the French-speaking Walen or Walloons is etymologically linked to a Celtic tribe named Volcae which inhabited different parts of Europe at the beginning of the Christian era.28 The Germanic people adopted the name Waals, to identify the Celts.
The Walloons considered themselves to be the Belgian elite and the Flemish were looked down upon.
To us, with our mongrel Celtic/Anglo-Saxon/French language and its imported Latin and Greek, Walloon sounds the least familiar and therefore more amusing of the two names.
Belgium, after all, became an independent state in 1830, precisely in order to liberate the Catholic Flemish, as well as the Walloons, from being second-class subjects in a Protestant Dutch monarchy.
One reason why Flemish Belgians resent having to prop up the Walloons with their tax money is that they regard them almost as foreigners.
It is sufficient that it is liable to have such an effect," explains the advocate-general, who demonstrates that the measure is unfair since it in practice affects only the inhabitants of the Walloon Region.
The Reformed Walloons had taken an active part in the events of the "Wonderyear" (1566), which after a brief ascendancy of the Calvinists ended in the repression of the duke of Alva and the "Council of Troubles." Faced with persecution, thousands of the Low Country's Reformed of both languages sought refuge abroad in the Protestant countries of Germany and in England.
Though not all of the immigrants were French speaking, the Walloons formed a considerable percentage.