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Re: [OS] BELGIUM- Belgian government falls as language groups feud

Released on 2013-03-12 00:00 GMT

Email-ID 1781192 Date 2010-04-26 23:22:30 From marko.papic@stratfor.com To laura.jack@stratfor.com

Re: [OS] BELGIUM- Belgian government falls as language groups feud





hahahahha, nice.



A state whose purpose from the inception was to be a BUFFER is just

retarded.



Laura Jack wrote:



uh, i broke up with my boyfriend bc he lives in brussels and i will

never, EVER live there again.



Marko Papic wrote:



fiddling little kids



You sound like my mom... She refuses to even purchase Belgian

chocolate because of all the pedophilia cases!



Laura Jack wrote:



here's a start, quit fiddling little kids and paying unemployment

benefits to suspected terrorists



Marko Papic wrote:



"From now on, we have to do all we can to stop making ourselves

look ridiculous in the eyes of Belgium, Europe and the world," the

French-speaking Green opposition party, Ecolo, said bitterly.



Amen to that.



Jasmine Talpur wrote:



Belgian government falls as language groups feud

Posted : Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:58:28 GMT

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/320681,belgian-government-falls-as-language-groups-feud--summary.html



Brussels - Belgium's government fell on Monday as all attempts

to end a feud over majority and minority language rights ended

in acrimony, throwing the country and, potentially, the European

Union into confusion.



The collapse comes as Dutch- and French-speakers wrangle over

the division of the Brussels electoral district, and two months

before Belgium takes over the EU's rotating presidency for six

months.



Belgium's head of state, King Albert II, "received in audience

this afternoon Prime Minister Yves Leterme. The king accepted

the resignation of the government which the prime minister

offered on Thursday," a brief statement from the palace said.



The king tasked the fallen government with continuing caretaker

duties, the statement said.



"I regret that the dialogue needed to reach a negotiated

settlement did not lead to the hoped-for result...The government

will continue to ensure the efficient conduct of current

business in the interest of the country and its citizens,"

Leterme said in a bilingual declaration posted on his website.



The political collapse came after talks hit deadlock between the

Flemish (Dutch-speaking) majority and francophone minority over

the division of the Brussels-Hal-Vilvoorde electoral district,

the only bilingual constituency in the country.



The constitutional court ruled in 2003 that the so-called BHV

district would have to be divided.



Since then, however, politicians have repeatedly gridlocked as

they tried to answer the Flemish demand to make parts of the

district monolingual while responding to the French-speaking

demand to allow voters throughout the region to support

French-speaking parties.



The row has brought Belgium to the brink of political chaos on

several occasions, hamstringing the government for much of the

time since the last national elections in June 2007.



Last week, former premier Jean-Luc Dehaene, known as the

"minesweeper" for his ability to broker deals, presented a

complex series of proposals designed to solve the BHV problem.



But the five parties of Belgium's ruling coalition - two

Flemish, three French-speaking - failed to agree on the

proposals. On Thursday, Leterme, a Dutch-speaker, offered to

quit.



Instead, the king on Saturday tasked Finance Minister Didier

Reynders, a French-speaker, with brokering a deal. But Reynders

quit on Monday afternoon after barely more than 48 hours in the

job, leaving the king little option but to accept the

government's fall.



"Is it possible to look for a negotiated solution with the same

partners? I don't think so," said Reynders, according to the

Belga news agency.



Leterme was equally glum, commenting, "At the end of the work

carried out by mediator Didier Reynders, it became clear that it

was impossible to reach a deal on the basis of (Dehaene's)

work."



It is not yet clear whether the king will task another

politician with trying to form a government, or call for fresh

elections.



French-speaking politicians were quick to speak out against the

latter option, with the head of the francophone conservatives,

Joelle Milquet, and the socialists, Elio Di Rupo, both opposing

such a move.



But Flemish liberal leader Alexander De Croo, whose party

triggered the collapse by quitting the government on Thursday,

said that it was time to "let the citizens have their say,"

Belga wrote.



Either way, the fall comes at a highly embarrassing time for

Belgium. The country is set to take over the EU presidency on

July 1.



"From now on, we have to do all we can to stop making ourselves

look ridiculous in the eyes of Belgium, Europe and the world,"

the French-speaking Green opposition party, Ecolo, said

bitterly.



Since January, the EU has had a permanent president - himself a

Belgian, Herman Van Rompuy - and a foreign-policy director, but

the presidency nation is expected to take the lead on other

major dossiers such as home affairs, agriculture and fisheries.



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Marko Papic



STRATFOR

Geopol Analyst - Eurasia

700 Lavaca Street, Suite 900

Austin, TX 78701 - U.S.A

TEL: + 1-512-744-4094

FAX: + 1-512-744-4334

marko.papic@stratfor.com

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Marko Papic



STRATFOR

Geopol Analyst - Eurasia

700 Lavaca Street, Suite 900

Austin, TX 78701 - U.S.A

TEL: + 1-512-744-4094

FAX: + 1-512-744-4334

marko.papic@stratfor.com

www.stratfor.com



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Marko Papic



STRATFOR

Geopol Analyst - Eurasia

700 Lavaca Street, Suite 900

Austin, TX 78701 - U.S.A

TEL: + 1-512-744-4094

FAX: + 1-512-744-4334

marko.papic@stratfor.com

www.stratfor.com









