What have you heard about belgium?

[Curix]

Hello, what do you (not in belgium living) people heard about the political crisis in Belgium? And what do you think about it?

 

Its maybe a strange question but when I ask "fellow-Belgians" , they don't know more than me.

[gcol]

Do you mean separating the flemmings and the walloons? It is not really a big deal to me. Living in England, we have enough trouble with the scots, welsh and Irish nationalists/separationists. The Spanish have their Basque separatists too. the flemmings and walloons have different languages, and the french speakers seem to identify with france.

 

On a lighter note, the Dutch have always made jokes about the Belgians. If Belgium ceases to exist, the dutch will have to pick on someone else. That will confuse them.

 

Was not belgium a rather artificial cobbling together not so long ago anyway? Perhaps it is time to un-cobble it.

 

If the bureaucratic leviathan of the euro-state has its way we will all lose our rather inconvenient national identities anyway. Perhaps belgium, as good little euro-boys will set an example to euro-sceptics like me.

[bascule]

I've just heard Flemish separatists are on the uprise and know little beyond that. But I live in America and we're renowned for not paying attention to the rest of the world.

[Pangloss]

Curix, why don't you post some links and perhaps a summary for us? It sounds like interesting food for discussion.

[Sisyphus]

It's funny how there seems to be simultaneous "breaking up" and "joining together" tendencies going on. As in, they don't want to be part of Belgium, but they do want to be part of the EU. "Sure, we want to be part of a supernational pseudo-sovereignty, but not if we have to arrive in the same car as you guys."

 

...of course, I really haven't been following this, so that might not be how it is at all....

[pcollins]

This aptly describes my position.

[Curix]

Curix, why don't you post some links and perhaps a summary for us? It sounds like interesting food for discussion.

 

 

Sorry I was absent some days, my PC crashed. Yes I can give you some links but they are in dutch.

And yes, it is a very interesting discussion, will it be good for flanders to seperate?