Crisis in Belgium: If Flanders Secedes Wallonia Disintegrates

This posting from Brussels Journal kind of caught the Chief by surprise. Although I have looked at this site occasionally, not a lot during the late summer. Apparently there is a real centrifugal force operating in Belgium which is tending to realign the map into some more traditional directions, such as an independent Flanders.

There’s a pretty interesting historical look at Belgium, which was cobbled together around 1830 as a compromise between Britain, France, Netherlands, and the “Belgian” factions: the Flemish and the Walloons. The piece ends with a 1942 suggestion of FDR to Britain that this split should take place.

Will this happen? Who knows. Stranger things have occurred in recent events in Europe (and elsewhere).

What’s it to us? Who knows. Probably some effects on the development, or devolution of the EU system…THAT would be of some real significance.