As in all stories, I start with the formula, it was once.
So there once was a very small country (no more than 30.528Km2: a "fly-blown" to worldwide!) despite that fact, had every advantage and the winning cards in hand to become "great" and where he would live.
But wicked fairy had looked at his birthplace, at its inception in 1830 (you see, too, that this country is very young, so in the prime of age!).
This country, which since the Middle Ages was a thriving commercial and cultural center (Ghent did not she was the capital of ... Charles V) became the prototype, much to the displeasure of its inhabitants, the ridiculous policy and repeated crises .....
Let us understand "why and how" ... This
countries, Belgium does not cite, located north of Europe was formed by the three linguistic and cultural communities are quite different.
parliamentary monarchy, it is incorporated in the North by the Dutch-speaking Flanders (Flemish-speaking, dialect derived from the Dutch), Wallonia in the south by the Francophone and Francophile, and east by the speaking community (quite small relative to both others) speak German.
Since the beginning, clashes often took place between the two main communities: the Flemings and the Walloons. But always, a compromise agreement was reached and Belgium continued its way somehow.
Highly industrialized and looking to the future and new technologies, it has experienced in the postwar years, a period of growth and prosperity when Wallonia has prédomné first, then after 60 years and decline mining coal, Flanders began to take over economically.
Belgium, during its heyday was a pioneer and founding member of the European Union, Brussels, its capital, becoming the capital of European institutions.
This small country, patchwork of cultures different would have been able to become a "paradise" for its inhabitants. (And, he has been for a number of years!)
was not counting with the extremists of all stripes, and other politicos Spoilers!
Belgians, good living and great practitioners of self-mockery) bickered often, dealing with names of birds between the two major communities, making fun of each other and vice versa.
People have even created "the belgitude" (little nod to the blackness of Leopold Sedar Senghor) is the image of Belgian identity.
The Belgian is neither French nor Dutch, nor German but it is a bit all at once.
A favorite programs and the Belgians who holds out since 1982 is "Be Belgium, and shut up" created by André Remy and blending skits, parodies and songs, mostly directed against the political course.
For several years now, ever since the "federalization" of Belgium in 1994, everything was packed: the misunderstanding between the Flemish and Walloon communities, the economic crisis, the rise of nationalist parties and "fundamentalists of all edges. All of these elements, in the hands of often corrupt politicos, have the explosion.
And for many years, successive political crises fester and still more, and Belgium and its inhabitants are stagnating and tear.
successive elections, and no consensus is found or so for a very short time, and then again "the playground disputes" between politicians .....
And you get to talk about splitting the country! Where are we going? Right into the wall, it seems!
But, being Belgian, we keep a sense of humor, thankfully.
can then hear of a government "blue planet", a coalition rainbow sky .... But what are
these quirks, my foreign friends ask me??
Simply put, the color mixing of different parties join forces for a few weeks or months to form a government!
And the king in all that you say? It oar, trying to reconcile the different currents, to pacify relations, but without much enthusiasm: he is virtually powerless and only a beautiful "image d'Epinal", although annoyed to be confronted during his reign he did not really want, is so enormous and endless disputes!
Last episode of trajico-burlesque "this year: since the legislative elections of June 2010, many political movements of this small country tear on language issues, unwilling to be led by the Flemish leader of the party legally elected!
Try to understand something! Similarly, we Belgians, however, accustomed to such "antics" are wasting our latin ..... Finally, our French and our Flemish!
After the election, to try to find a valid agreement, the king appointed:
- a preformation
- an informant
- mediator
- a conciliator, all to try to find a trainer to find a consensus and finally have a government.
I think after we will have u No moderator, a peacemaker, a deminer to defuse the bombs that all these gentlemen return ...
But would it not have been started by a scout , it would have been more logical, right?
And now we must find a juggler, entertainer and finally a savior who will finally bring happiness to little Belgium ........ Following the serial
the next issue.
Meanwhile, the economic and financial situation of the small Belgian people is getting worse because the government has resigned does not "manage" than "business as usual".
Is not politics great?
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