Language teaching policies in France are still defined uncompetitively by the state. Yet officials from both the central and the local services are often led to cooperate with actors from outside the Department of Education. Such cooperation is rather akin to some ill-controlled outsourcing for most of the teaching of Dutch as a foreign language and to some pervasive interference with the teaching of West Flemish as a regional language. This article aims to analyze the influence of actors from Flemish and Dutch organizations and authorities on the setting of a specific educational offer in a French area with which the nationalist imaginary as well as a form of economic and political pragmatism are embedded.