Showing posts with label King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label King. Show all posts

Monday, 13 June 2011

Belgium: will someone put the sick man of Europe out of his misery?

The end of Belgium - language map
Belgians like to be a bit special and peculiar, maybe that's the only thing that unites them.
...errr that is as the saying goes, if there are any Belgians besides the king!

Today the "country" marks one full year since elections gave modest victories to the anti-Belgium NVA nationalist in Dutch-speaking Flanders and to the pro-Belgium PS Socialists in Wallonia. The two parties have been a 100% failure in forming a government during a year of either bitter talks or absolute silence.

The care-taker government deals well with non strategic issues, but only those. Similarly investors procrastinate any major decisions.

Gentlemen, lets face the facts: Belgium was never a nation, why keep the charade? For the sake of French jokes?

Will someone please put the sick man of Europe out of his misery?

Lets have a civilized Czechoslovakian divorce, having Wallonia and Flanders as nations within the European Union.

The German areas can be returned to Germany: they were stolen from it in 1929 anyway. Some southern areas should be part of Luxembourg.

Brussels can become "Brussels, FD", i.e. the Federal District for the European Capital.

As time goes by, nobody will be shocked if Wallonia and/or Flanders would like to join France or the Netherlands.

Lets get moving!

Thursday, 6 November 2008

Long live the king of Bhutan!

Who cares that the US has its first mixed-race president ever...

Let's look instead to a tiny dot in the map of Asia.

Who we really want to salute is the sovereign of Buthan!

Long life to King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, who will rule over the only country where the guiding principle is Gross National Happiness!

King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan