evidence: The Belgian village of Erquelinnes, which lies along the 390-mile border with France, had as a result grown by seven feet. The French town of Bousignies-sur-Roc in turn shed more than a few inches. "I was happy, my town was bigger," David Lavaux, the mayor of Erquelinnes, told French TV channel TF1, according to the BBC. "But the mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc didn’t agree." [...] "We should be able to avoid a new border war," Aurélie Welonek, the mayor of Bousignies-sur-Roc, told a French newspaper.