Birdie; Verhofstadt is a Belgian, he may talk about a united Europe, but he doesn't even belong to a united country! They are Flemings and Walloons, (he's Flemish) two predominant cultural and linguistic groups of modern Belgium. The Flemings, who constitute more than half of the Belgian population, speak Dutch, or Belgian Dutch (also called Flemish by English-speakers), and live mainly in the north and west. The Walloons, who make up about one-third of the Belgian population, speak dialects of French and live chiefly in the south and east.
They don't exactly rub along together nicely, in fact, in the search for terrorists it came to light that there are (unofficially) 2 separate police forces even within the town of Brussels who hardly communicate with each other.
Nigel Farage has referred to it in the EU Parliament as a "non-country" - purposely to annoy him. :0)