Belgian government fell

Flemish Liberals withdrew their support of the Leterme II government, and Prime Minister Leterme (Christian Democrat) has offered his resignation to King Albert II.

The issue of the Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde electoral split was not successfully resolved, and the Liberals held their word: if today's deadline on the issue was breached, they would quit.

At the moment, the resignation has not yet been approved by the King, and both the Council of Ministers (Ministerraad) and the conference of the chairmen of the Chamber of Representatives (conferentie van de voorzitters van de Kamer van Volksvertegenwoordigers) are being held.

I'll keep you updated on the situation.

Sure do.
I just heard at school from my Dutch teacher then within 15 minutes (on that current time ) the government could fall..
I was like wtf O.o
What are the consequences of this????

The same thing like a few years back: an interim-government needs to be formed, new elections, and another government formation cycle begins.

If BHV doesn't get solved by 2011, every election from that year on forwards will be unconstitutional as decided by the Constitutional Court (Grondwettel Hof, older name Arbitragehof).

Remain Calm. (and thanks for the info. i'll watch for it on the news tomorrow and by the time word reaches our shores, your fine country will have wiped itself out in a bitter civil war.)

Rofl, chill. Dutch parliament fell too, but we're still doin' good. Don't sweat it.

I'm not disturbed, I actually find this very exciting.

Sweet. But at least arm yourself with something right?

(anything close at hand - Baton, Hairspray, or a Revolver would be better)

GL mate, thinking of you as I go to sleep. kisses from australia

I have been planning my coup d'état for years! Have no fear

Lone is gonna take over Belgium! I knew it. He's gonna introduce communism and force everyone to wear their hair ridiculously long.

Good thing I'm Dutch.

You need to hurry if you're gonna come up with some April-theses.

I'm scaredd

I want to move out of Britain.
What a dump - the political situation is terrible (although not as bad as Belgium or NL).

You guys just want to copy the netherlands. Lol

Yeaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Let's make Lanaken Maastricht.

Matthew wrote:I want to move out of Britain.
What a dump - the political situation is terrible (although not as bad as Belgium or NL).

You should see the situation here in Slovenia. We have interpellations of ministries every few months LOL. Coalition and opposition fight constantly. Government is weak with affairs popping out every week. In National Assembly people tend to leave im mass groups out of protests. There is no work done and everything is put to a halt. After the 2009 crysis we are barely managing and many experts predict that we will follow Greece. But unlike Greece we don't think Slovenia could survive and get it self out of the dump. Greece atleast has mass tourism.

Xris how can a parliament fell? I dont get it....government yes but parliament?

Government, parliament, whatever. I'm only 17, I'm not really into politics and never will be.

Do i have to speak about the greek goverements of the last 30-40 yeras? >.>

What's the Greek situation by the way? It seems really negative, but I have absolutely no clue of what it entices.

daryo wrote:

Matthew wrote:I want to move out of Britain.
What a dump - the political situation is terrible (although not as bad as Belgium or NL).

You should see the situation here in Slovenia. We have interpellations of ministries every few months LOL. Coalition and opposition fight constantly. Government is weak with affairs popping out every week. In National Assembly people tend to leave im mass groups out of protests. There is no work done and everything is put to a halt. After the 2009 crysis we are barely managing and many experts predict that we will follow Greece. But unlike Greece we don't think Slovenia could survive and get it self out of the dump. Greece atleast has mass tourism.

Xris how can a parliament fell? I dont get it....government yes but parliament?

Why is that? Is power in government proportional to the number of votes a party gets? Does this happen often? It's interesting because I'm worried about this becoming reality for years to come in Britain

greece has so many young communists

Oh god, are you still interested in communism? Socialism I can take, but communism? Really now?

Yeah, fuck communism! Let's rape lone.

fu commies own

Its just that greeks go down on strikes really often and same goes for students at schools and univrsities.
And its quite normal with the circumstances getting worse and worse.
And about the dept thingy im not gonna say its not "our" fault. Goverments r been shit for decades now, there is a lot of corruption in many sections but its a fact that many want Greece to have debt. That's the way to control a country like Greece. Also this dept story is helping other economies.