Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: E il Belgio si divide?

Succedesse, avremmo il parlamento europeo in terra di nessuno.
Ma te guarda a forza di integrare si disintegra.
E ricordiamoci del precedente Kossovo, perche' no Paesi Baschi o
Slesia?
A top Belgian politician warned the country's citizens on Sunday to
"get ready for the break-up of Belgium," as King Albert II seeks to
relaunch knife-edge coalition talks.
Leading francophone Socialist Laurette Onkelinx, considered a
potential successor to party chief Elio Di Rupo, who gave up on
negotiations with separatist Flemish leaders on Friday, gave her
prognosis in a newspaper interview.
"Let's hope it doesn't come to that because if we split, it will be
the weakest who will pay the heaviest price," she told La Derniere
Heure. "On the other hand, we can no longer ignore that among a large
part of the Flemish population, it's their wish.
"So yes, we have to get ready for the break-up of Belgium. Otherwise
we're cooked.
"When I look at the letters I receive, loads of people think it's
possible. (Our) politicians have to be prepared," underlined the
current caretaker federal minister for health and social affairs.
Albert II tasked late on Saturday the respective speakers of Belgium's
French-speaking Wallonia and Dutch-speaking Flanders state parliaments
to try once more to navigate seven-party talks aimed at securing some
form of government, other than the existing day-to-day formation.
That came after seven weeks of efforts by Di Rupo, who says that the
biggest Flemish party, the independence-minded New Flemish Alliance (N-
VA), rejected the widest set of concessions towards full autonomy for
Flanders in Belgium's tortured recent history.
Belgium, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union
until the end of the year, adding a further layer to the pressure on
the sovereign, has not been able to point to a stable government since
June 2007.
The stark comments from Onkelinx followed those of another leading
francophone Socialist, Philippe Moureaux, who has said Belgium was on
the verge of a "progressive organisation of separation."
Formerly taboo among the poorer francophone parts of Belgium, the
prospect of going it alone is no longer considered so -- with a third
senior official, the head of the Wallonia state government, Rudy
Demotte, also telling RTBF radio that "all options" are now open.
Demotte added that Wallonia and the capital region of Brussels, the
third federal state and increasingly the focus of arguments about
financial settlements, had the wherewithal "to see what we can do
ourselves without waiting for tomorrow."
While located within Flanders' borders, Brussels is officially bi-
lingual, although recent studies have shown accelerating numbers of
registered French speakers, including the nearly one-in-three who hail
from abroad.
Tens of thousands of Flemish people, meanwhile, took part on Sunday in
an annual demonstration which consists in symbolically "encircling"
Brussels by bike or on foot, to remind locals that they are surrounded
by Flanders.

 Succedesse, avremmo il parlamento europeo in terra di nessuno.
Mio dio che dramma :-)

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Da strapparsi i capelli, una bella europa unita, in un belgio diviso,
con i piigs sotto attacco speculativo.
Senza un mandato popolare, con debiti e spese, in recessione.
Direi che se stavano in 12 avevano chances, han deciso di diventare il
vassallo scemo, han seguito Sam nella guerra per il petrolio, vinta
sul petrolio perdendo la faccia.
Oltre la faccia hanno perso anche il futuro.
Ma sorge una domanda perche' il belgio si divide, sara' mai per la
pecunia?
Se e' cosi' son cazzi.