Dark_Silence
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i am worrying about the situation in Belgium: already 171 days without being able to form a new government, and it doesnt seem like its going to happen very soon...
The flamish would like to have more power for the communities instead of more power to the state... and they would like to separate the social system (retirement, money for children who go to school,..). They more or less want to separate the country and have their independance
But the Walloons dont agree because Wallonia has high unemployment (i have read 20%, but that comes from the internet so i dont know if i can really trust the information), and if the state break, then we will have a serious money problem, and people would probabily become poorer.
I was following the debate on the website of a well know walloon newspaper (www.lesoir.be for those who understand french). And by reading the comments, i see that more and more walloons are now fed up about debates that dont bring something new, and fed up to be treated like shit by the flemish people. Still, some friends of mine, like a lot of walloons still did until a few weeks ago, want belgium to stay unified.
I think that if we dont come to an agreement now, we will probabily not in the future as well because the cultures are different, and the problem of teh different labguage will still be, and if the debates about the power of the federal state vs the power of the communities comes back every x years when it is the elections, and that the flamish only worry about their wellness and dont care about the rest of us anymore, or if they dont respect the right of the people who lives around brussels (not in the city of brussels, but on the territory of Flanders) it is not worth to keep belgium unified. But it would be hard...
When i talk of non respect of the rights here above, i mean that the flemish government dont always accept that a lot of people near brussels are native french speakers and that they have the right to have their papers like letters from the "citygovernment" in french. A lot of people who work in brussels and decided to go live at the border of teh city because it is more peacefull, but brussels is surrounded by Flanders so the french speakers in the communes near brussels are where people normally speaks flamish...
We should have made a state with 2 languages everywhere, and not have communities and linguistic borders, it would probabily have ben easier.
I also see that more and more people claim rattachment to France, but personnally, i dont feel like i am french, and i would prefer iit not to happen.
The flamish would like to have more power for the communities instead of more power to the state... and they would like to separate the social system (retirement, money for children who go to school,..). They more or less want to separate the country and have their independance
But the Walloons dont agree because Wallonia has high unemployment (i have read 20%, but that comes from the internet so i dont know if i can really trust the information), and if the state break, then we will have a serious money problem, and people would probabily become poorer.
I was following the debate on the website of a well know walloon newspaper (www.lesoir.be for those who understand french). And by reading the comments, i see that more and more walloons are now fed up about debates that dont bring something new, and fed up to be treated like shit by the flemish people. Still, some friends of mine, like a lot of walloons still did until a few weeks ago, want belgium to stay unified.
I think that if we dont come to an agreement now, we will probabily not in the future as well because the cultures are different, and the problem of teh different labguage will still be, and if the debates about the power of the federal state vs the power of the communities comes back every x years when it is the elections, and that the flamish only worry about their wellness and dont care about the rest of us anymore, or if they dont respect the right of the people who lives around brussels (not in the city of brussels, but on the territory of Flanders) it is not worth to keep belgium unified. But it would be hard...
When i talk of non respect of the rights here above, i mean that the flemish government dont always accept that a lot of people near brussels are native french speakers and that they have the right to have their papers like letters from the "citygovernment" in french. A lot of people who work in brussels and decided to go live at the border of teh city because it is more peacefull, but brussels is surrounded by Flanders so the french speakers in the communes near brussels are where people normally speaks flamish...
We should have made a state with 2 languages everywhere, and not have communities and linguistic borders, it would probabily have ben easier.
I also see that more and more people claim rattachment to France, but personnally, i dont feel like i am french, and i would prefer iit not to happen.
