Coming apart at the seams

In the words of one journalist this week, “Belgium is coming apart at the seams”. We thought it took a long time after the Assembly elections in Wales but it’s now four months since the Belgian elections and they still haven’t been able to form a government.

No agreement can be reached between Dutch speaking Flanders and French speaking Wallonia. There are eleven political parties represented but, interestingly, there is not one “national” Belgian party. Plaid’s sister party in Flanders, Spirit, supports independence. Sooner than any of us imagined, they may just achieve their aim.