Meanwhile in Belgium...

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Good luck to Flanders.

Considering their seat is in the national capital, what's the European Union think of this national crisis?

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That's what happens when two distinct linguistic, socio-economic, and cultural peoples lumped together have nowt in common .

Yes. And guess what country is responsible for two distinct linguistic, socio-economic, and cultural peoples being lumped together in Belgium with nowt in common?

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That's what happens when two distinct linguistic, socio-economic, and cultural peoples lumped together have nowt in common .

Yes. And guess what country is responsible for two distinct linguistic, socio-economic, and cultural peoples being lumped together in Belgium with nowt in common?

Wouldn't be Great Britain by any chance? If so, I'm sure it was, at the time, with the best of intent

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Right you are. Britain refused to have a border with France that close to them, so they turned a province into a country.

Further proves the point that at least 80% of the conflicts in the world are the result of the British and the French absentmindedly drawing borders throughout the 19th and 20th centurys.

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A couple sites. The first explores the wider implications of this state failing to the EU (something he's not sympathetic toward). The second is just a Belgian journalist explaining in English

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/
http://crisisinbelgium.blogspot.com/

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I wish more euros were like Volksliberalist.

Yup. Look at his profile and he is a Cascadian national.

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The European Union is a crime against humanity.

All superstates that ignore regional concerns are.

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They can't constitutionally until 2011. There's also something about a bilingual constituency of Brussels and its suburbs that have to be split up, but the Walloons have not agreed to it unless they get something in return.


Four British-originated articles saying it might be time to call a day for the country.

Most interesting part in all of them: an idea for Brussels to become the European version of Washington, D.C.

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9767681
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/politics/danielhannan/sep07/belgium-election.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/09/08/dl0803.xml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2409877.ece

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60 to 90 days.