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To start with: Walloons don't want further federalisation.  Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde: again, it's the Walloon parties that are afraid of loosing influence whatever compromise will come out. Every Walloon party will play it hard. Joëlle Milquet from the CDH is called now in Flanders:"Madame non".

Leterme cannot be neglected: he won the elections in a way almost never seen in Belgium. Without him a government is impossible.
But what's going on now IMHO, they are looking for a way to isolate the CD§V-partner, the NVA. They have a separatist agenda and succeed so far to reject the Walloon proposals for a compromise. That way Leterme is taken hostage by the NVA notwithstanding this is estimated less than 10% of the coalition.

A Walloon prime minister is political a non go, really, this is unacceptable for the Flemish(whatever party),so far.

Your proposal of coalition make sense(except of the PM), and in the press simular ideas are already launched. Give it a day or three, I'm sure Verhofstadt will examine this alternatives, and we'll see wich parties will take responsibilities.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Mon Dec 3rd, 2007 at 07:31:39 PM EST
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To start with: Walloons don't want further federalisation.
That's what I meant. They don't want further federalisation, the Flemish parties do. At the same time there is the struggle about the B-H-V region. The Walloons probably (and justifiably) feel that if they give up one bit, the Flemish will just come back in 4 to 8 years asking for more. But the Walloons can't expect not to give away anything this round, considering the outcome of the elections, and B-H-V is the lesser of the two chips.
by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Mon Dec 3rd, 2007 at 08:03:35 PM EST
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Well, one of the idea's going around is: next regional elections are due to be held in 2009.
Why not hold simultanously federal elections? That way a lot of problems could be solved. With that in mind it might be possible to reach a compromise to form a government to 'prepare' further federalisation and govern on social-economical basis(the agreements on this are made already).


The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)
by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Mon Dec 3rd, 2007 at 08:19:30 PM EST
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