Interim government for Belgium needed urgently

December 15, 2007 Federal Europe, General No comments
! This post hasn't been updated in over a year. A lot can change in a year including my opinion and the amount of naughty words I use. There's a good chance that there's something in what's written below that someone will find objectionable. That's fine, if I tried to please everybody all of the time then I'd be a Lib Dem (remember them?) and I'm certainly not one of those. The point is, I'm not the kind of person to try and alter history in case I said something in the past that someone can use against me in the future but just remember that the person I was then isn't the person I am now nor the person I'll be in a year's time.

About 18,000 trade union members have taken to the streets in Belgium to protest about rising prices and the fact that they haven’t got a government.

The protest was organised by the three main trade unions in Belgium which collectively represent about 3m people.  The population of Belgium is approximately 11m so that’s quite a protest.

King Albert has asked the outgoing Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt, to form a government urgently.

Why is forming a government so urgent that it must be done by the former prime minister who wasn’t elected to do the job?  Well, Belgium is the only EU member state that can’t sign the EU not-a-constitution at the moment because the caretaker government isn’t allowed to sign international treaties.  Or maybe that’s just a co-incidence.

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