Meanwhile in Belgium...

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Has a government been formed yet?
I had forgotten about this, but heard that the Belgian King is on a state visit here for a few days.

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International Herald Tribune:
Belgium in deep political crisis as government talks collapse

"Belgium slumped into one of the deepest political crises in 50 years on Wednesday when coalition talks between Flemish and Francophone parties collapsed under the weight of incessant recriminations between leaders of the language groups.

After a record 150 days without government, Flemish parties worsened the situation by using their majority electoral clout in parliament to vote for the carve-up of a bilingual electoral district in and around Brussels.

They did so for the first time in many decades, and against the wishes of their Francophone counterparts, effectively ditching a long tradition of consensus politics.

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Late Tuesday, government negotiator Yves Leterme put forward a compromise to Christian Democrat and Liberal parties from both sides of the language border that slices Belgium into Flanders in the north and Francophone Wallonia in the south.

Flemish negotiators accepted the plan as a basis for more talks on the language rights in and around bilingual Brussels, but their Francophone counterparts rejected it, saying it would effectively bar French-speakers from voting for Francophone parties in a Flemish area around Brussels. ...."

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Leterme gets his hat-trick - once again offering his resignation to the King.