That little country that two world wars were fought in, is in serious political trouble.


BELGIUM plunged deeper into political uncertainty when would-be prime minister Yves Leterme abandoned efforts to form a four-party centre-right government after the collapse of marathon talks.

Leterme's Flemish Christian Democrats, the Flemish Liberals and their French-speaking counterparts have held on-off negotiations for a record 174 days since the general election, but failed to agree on the central issue of devolving more power to the regions.

Leterme had set a midday deadline for all parties to accept his final plan. When one declined to do so, he went to King Albert to be discharged from his task of forming a government.


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Belgium is a country you don't hear about very often.

Looks like the French minority, or is it a majority, do not know, is not happy and this could break the country into two parts.

You got me CHUQ. What I know about Belgium I could easily put in 2 lines.

well from what I understand part of the country has French ties and the northern has Dutch, and as they say, the two will never come together. Does this sound a little familiar?