VSIt’s weird Belgium. Never has chaos been so strong, or at least the political surrealism so surreal, and interest on one side of the country for the other and vice versa has never seemed so great.
Chaos ? It is obvious when the CD&V, a royalist party in essence, holder of the power of advice to the sovereign for generations, guns down itself the inhabitant of the Royal Palace at the same time as its best man on the ground (Koen Geens). If even the Flemish social Christians put the monarchy in difficulty / danger in order, they think, to save themselves, it is because the hour is serious. Ditto with the budget: even a budget deficit on the road to hell no longer scares anyone. On the contrary, since Thursday and the red alert of the Planning Bureau, the parties virulently send each other flower pots to the head and the crepe of …