The Brussels Puzzle

... elites, influenced by the growing economic might of their region, were unwilling to finance the economically and socially weaker Wallonia and set out to legislatively consolidate the confederation concept. They would like to see each part of Belgium self-financed,... ... posts, the Flemish have ceded supreme authority to the Walloons, ostensibly with help from the new EU leaders for whom Euro-separatism is an eyesore on the no longer charming face of supranational Europe. It appears much easier to find a common political ...