www.brusselstimes.com
let's start sharpening it
This. Nobody takes him seriously, he's always been a moron. I mean look at this dumbass:
www.bbc.com
That's actually a question I never asked myself before (because I'm not a huge idiot), but now I wonder which monster of history would be the most "innocent", if you applied the "only what they did with their own 2 hands counts" system.
It is a lot cheaper.
No thank you, Belgium is probably still only a country because the king can calm down the two sides of the country.
Seems like the only institution that holds our country together sometimes.
Ffffffuck. What a dickhead.This. Nobody takes him seriously, he's always been a moron. I mean look at this dumbass:
Prince Laurent: €46,000 blow for Belgium's 'cursed prince'
Prince Laurent defended his allowance as "the price of my life, which is largely behind me now".
You think he is the issue? Magnette refuses to talk to the biggest party of the country... In any other country, that would be not done.
Maybe it's not a union worth having then. If only there were pro-devolution parties on the left.
If Europe was stronger, I would say kill Belgium, put Brussels + Brabant as capital of the EU outside of any country.
I'm not going to blame NVA for VB, 20% of Flanders willingly voted for those clowns
Why is everyone always so quick to partition Belgium. Do you think that's what Belgians want?
I don't see the need for a federal level if you already have a strong regional government and an overarching European level. Also makes it less likely of having to wait a couple of years before you can form a government.
Politics come and go, it wasn't too long ago when Wallonia was in the driving seat. Countries don't split up on the regular.
Switzerland manages quite well with a high level of devolution. Maybe look there for some inspiration.
Brussels is a net recipient of Flemish tax dollars IIRC so that def upsets them lol, the only reason they'd care is because unfortunately it's surrounded by Flanders. But the whole thing would be such a dumb clusterfuck if we tried to cut Brussels out of Flanders.
Swiss system of automatically putting the largest parties into government is something we desperately need
I think we'd have to dig up what kind of crap he pulled before he rose to power. I mean, I think he fought in WW1, right? I just have a hard time believing that Adolf Hitler never got his hands dirty.
if you consider the biggest party of Flanders a problem...
Considering Waals and Vlaams Brabant are basic extensions of Brussels in terms of population, work areas, .. they should never be separated from each other. The majority of people commuting to Brussels come from these two provinces. It is where all the NATO, EU, .. people live.
Belgians don't exist. There is no such thing as a Belgian. Because it is two countries, one that votes completely left-wing (the communist party leftwing) and one that votes completely right-wing. These discrepancies are economically not maintainable, especially if the left-wing parties refuse to work with any right-wing ones. The minority are literally saying, no, we don't need representation from the majority. it is why a year after the election and 1,5 year after the fall of the previous government we aren't even close to a government.
