ugly situation by both sides and heaps and heaps of political cowardice all around. The steady stream of french expletives coming from the phone when my wife is talking politics to her friends from her hometown of brussels is extraordinary.
I really don't think you can split the nation due to the fact that both sides really have near equal claim to brussels and neither side is going to give it up. What you really need is new elections and a far more pragmatic governing coalition. CD&V leadership doesn't look like it's served anyone really well, not even the Flemish nationalists.
What we need is a confederal state model, where both regions are responsible for themselves so they can be governed more effectively and don't obstruct one another leading to statusquo and frustration. Belgium, a country of 10millon people has 6 governments resulting in a ridiculously huge bureaucratic state, everything has to be compromised so hard that we end up with a impentrable state structure where almost no one can get sense of, decisions that don't really do anything. We think differently on pretty much everything.
Either that or we'll split up cause nothing really ties us together and I don't think flanders will cling to Brussels needlessly when it comes to it, it's a money sink for us too. It's telling when everytime someone suggests splitting up, pro-Belgium supporters point towards Brussels...as if a 'problem situation' could or should bind a nation of two separate people together.
Besides, we can't have new elections because the Constitutional court ruled that the BHV situation (where wallons in a certain part of flanders can vote for wallon politicians) is against the constitution and needs to be solved. Any elections after july 07 are therefor void.
