Belgium’s new Prime Minister Yves Leterme has previously called his country “an accident of history” – which is probably the most accurate character of this central European country.
Leterme is nothing new to Belgium, as he was the Prime Minister already before his successor Herman van Rompuy. But as van Rompuy was elected European Union’s first President, Belgian King Albert II recalled the 49-year-old former leader to head the Government.
Although Leterme has a French-speaking father, he …

According to a study by the global hotel industry, French people are the world’s worst tourists, AFP reports.
TNS Infratest asked 40,000 hotels worldwide to rank tourists from 27 countries based on nine criteria, from their politeness to their willingness to tip.
Clean and tidy, polite, quiet and uncomplaining, Japanese tourists came top of the crop for the third year running. Britons came second for their overall behaviour, politeness, quietness and even elegance — second for dress sense …