It is not clear to me that Belgium's difficulties in creating a federal government in recent years have harmed Belgians' quality of life. We often forget their powerful sub-national governments. When they've really needed federal action, they've overcome their divisions to implement policy, like the banking crises late last decade.
True. It would just be easier and simpler to drop the one country pretense and make it a loose confederation with a small council responsible for implementing common policies agreed by the three parlaments in the constituent parts.
