Belgian Periodicals I Monitor

Dutch (Flemish) Language

Het Belang van Limburg
Gazet van Antwerpen
Het Nieuwsblad
De Standaard - The Flemish newspaper of leading international renown. Unfortunately, it requires a paid subscription for access to most of its articles. I do have such a subscription presently, good until early February, 2004, but who knows for how long after that.
De Tijd - Also calls itself De Financieel Economische Tijd; it's a business newspaper
Het Volk

French Language

La Dernière Heure
La Libre Belgique
Le Soir

Netherlands Periodicals I Monitor

Algemeen Dagblad*
Het Financieele Dagblad* - as it's name implies, it is a business newspaper, and the top one in Holland. It can get mighty boring, folks, unless you are specially interested in this type of thing - or have to be due to the nature of your work.
Nederlands Dagblad - the "newspaper for active Christians"
NRC Handelsblad* - the "serious" Dutch newspaper (an evening paper, in fact)
Het Parool
Reformatorisch Dagblad - the "reform" in its name refers to the Dutch Reformed (Protestant/Calvinist) Church; it's another avowedly Christian newspaper. In fact, Sundays it "rests" and blanks out all information.

De Telegraaf
De Telegraaf is a very interesting case: the most popular newspaper in the country, despite/because of its tabloid content. Personally, I don't want to read it - I'm not interested in the latest adventures of Crown Princess Máxima, for instance. Yet people I respect tell me that De Telegraaf is really quite all right; "great business section!" they all say. I will concede that "tabloid" in Dutch terms never quite plumbs depths such as those seen with the Weekly World News (American) or News of the World (British).

Trouw* - formerly a Catholic newspaper, now general interest
De Volkskrant

* These newspapers require (free) visitor registration to read individual articles. In addition, Het Financieele Dagblad restricts many of its articles to paid subscribers only.