Inside Story - Belgium in crisis - 04 Dec 07 -Part 1

The country finds itself without a government for months amid political wrangling

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[derodetongvandeleeuw]

The Dutch speaking part seeks to protect its language space and this seems completely justified. Just like the Catalunia speakers in Catalunia (Spain) or the French speakers in Quebec (Canada). More political autonomy or independence should do the trick. Their political representants are in favour of more autonomy. So let it be.

[iliaens7]

solution to the language problem: educate everyone in Europe in English (or even another mutual language) and really use it as the language in wich the governments, media, ... work

[thecritiquevirtuoso]

Flanders to the Netherlands and Wallonia to France... it's only logical.

[TheMagereHeinz]

@LmAoLoLRoFl10 Don't be so sure about that :P

[rodtev]

@pantherenebuleuse you don't get it at all.

[salimleking]

God bless Belgium :D

[pantherenebuleuse]

I am kind of laughing when I see Belgium dividing itself. This is the country that fucked up Rwanda with discrimination. My only regret is that they still don't turn out like Greece. Let them split and get weakened.

[savagedefender]

@Archimedes555453525

met m'n laatste zin bedoel ik dat we wat verder moeten kijken dan onze land/taal grenzen. je hebt wel een punt wat betreft een tv serie. ;)

[Archimedes555453525]

@savagedefender - I agree that we flemish can manage, but many of us don't speak it fluently. It could be better, and I blame the lack of contact with the frenchspeaking world. French movies or series subtitled in dutch would be enough. And vice versa for Wallonia. I speak dutch, spanish and english fluently, my french could be better.

The world is my moon, the sun is my home... wait, does that make sense?

[savagedefender]

@Archimedes555453525

i'm from belgium, flemish part

they teach us french from when we're about 10 years old and have french language coarses till the age of 18. so we can manage in french, it's only recently that some schools of the walloons learn their pupils dutch.

and oh yeah, we've also got a german speaking part ;-)

i speak dutch,french,english,german and a bit spanish :)

belgium is my town, the world is my country.

[jonadv]

The possible split is not a problem, it is a result of Walloon tirrany.