Another crisis in Belgium

 It is, alas, time to restart this blog again, for a fourth episode of Crisis in Belgium, after 2007, 2010-11 and 2014. I have waited quite long this time, hoping that there would be a compromise possible, even after the incredibly dramatic electoral results of 26 May 2019. But since last Friday this seems unlikely, at least in the short term. That is why we start our reporting again.

 Like in the previous episodes, I will concentrate on facts, avoid moralizing, and try to write as neutrally as possible, by putting myself into the logics and motives of politicians that are far away from my own opinions, including in the other parts of the country (I’m from a originally trilingual family, but was educated (to be an historian) and live in Flanders, worked in the past as a journalist and adviser for Christian democratic and liberal politicians, and am nowadays an official in the communication department of the European Parliament).

  I will again try to catch up with events since the last note on this blog in October 2014  with short background briefings (most of these briefings of the past episodes need almost no updating). I started this blog thirteen years ago to exercise my English writings. But it has grown far out of this original purpose. I hope I still find the same audience, and some new ones. Please leave your comment, it is surely welcome as long as it is formulated in a way appropriate among civilized human beings. And remember that in the scarce cases that I will voice an opinion, it is entirely my own.