But the leader of a third Flemish party accused both parties of seeking "Utopia".
With a few French and Italian exceptions, the Iveagh pictures are all English, Flemish and Dutch.
Shapely modern lamps offset boiserie and paintings by 18th-century Flemish artist Pierre Norbert van Reysschoot.
Belgium itself is a country divided between people who speak Dutch (Flemish) and French.
It is the same with Belgians: Flemish-speakers tend to marry Dutch partners, Walloons marry French people.
The party is now the biggest political force in Flanders, the Flemish-speaking region of Belgium.
Flemish oil painting was born out of manuscript illumination, of which Bruges was a great centre.
The New Flemish Alliance, which aspires to eventual independence for Belgium's Flemish half, won most seats.
The Flemish Christian Democrats said earlier that essential items of the plan would have to be adjusted.
This in turn will make it harder for any Flemish party to co-operate comfortably with any Walloons.
Mr Vande Lanotte, who is also a Flemish Social Democrat, said the parties would have to agree eventually.
Mr Leterme's Flemish party won elections in June 2007 but was unable to reach agreement on a coalition.
With chocolate-box-pretty town squares, hearty Flemish-inspired cuisine and some truly original attractions, the city is an overlooked gem.
Jacky (Matthias Schoenaerts) is a cattle farmer in the Flemish-speaking region of Belgium.
The parties also settled a row over the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde electoral district fuelled by Flemish fears of encroachment by French-speakers.
The energy regulator in Flemish Belgium, VREG, says that after some initial teething problems the system is working well.
Other Flemish parties are already sounding more nationalistic, in order not to lose votes to their more extreme rivals.
But the Flemish separatists are making things increasingly difficult in the longer run.
The first hint of a deal came in July, when the Flemish Christian Democrats broke ranks with Mr De Wever.
But these reallocated galleries also facilitate the unification of the Northern paintings (German, Netherlandish, Dutch, Flemish), which had previously been disconnected.
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"People suspected of wanting to go to Syria should have their ID cards confiscated in advance, " says Flemish Socialist MP Hans Bonte.
The Flemish have a gift for taking a space not much larger than an air shaft and transforming it into a sanctuary.
As all the candidates to replace Waseige are Flemish, it might soon be time for the Francophone press to sharpen their knives.
Local elections in Belgium have resulted in widespread gains for the Flemish Nationalist Party (NVA), which wants to divide the country further.
It's a sensibility embodied by Flamant, the Flemish equivalent of Restoration Hardware.
Flemish style is stealth style, Flanders the land of under-promise and over-delivery.
This has made the Flemings all the more determined to insist on the use of Dutch in the Flemish areas around the city.
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These became common after the first world war, with displays in London of Spanish, Swedish, Flemish and then Dutch art, all with international loans.
At present they are able to vote for French-speaking candidates, but such an option would no longer be available under a proposed Flemish solution.
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