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Reason Belgium hasn't signed the charter for minority and regional languages is because the Flemish Region don't deem recognising French as an official language a good idea, due to likely Frenchification it might catalyse.
Also a very historical phenomenon. Back in the Burgundian era the Hollanders once rebelled against French being imposed as the administrative language and Flemish bureaucrats being sent to Holland as middlemen. Little known history. Back in that era Flanders was more wealthy than Brabant, though, Bruges was the most important harbour city of the Low Countries.
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