Present-Day Wallonia. The Search for an Identity without Nationalist Mania

Abstract

Looking at present-day Wallonia from a nationalistic point of view, an outsider is bound to experience serious problems. These problems are somehow reminiscent of the ones that— at the time— emanated from the kind of Wallonia the Walloon Movement wanted to create. Indeed, it is unusual for a political community (and Institution of Public Law) to have been founded on such a blatant and radical rejection of nationalism.