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Flanders and Wallonia also belong to different economic worlds: Flanders ia more than a third richer than Wallonia and the latter has an unemployment rate more than twice as high as Flanders.
Instead of continuing with the list of differences between the two regions, we recommend to deal with Flanders and Wallonia as a case for cross-border cooperation. To do so we are going to use six theses based on (national) border regions in Europe; lessons from intercity networks and a comparison between Belgium (including Brussels) with the Randstad Holland.