If it weren't for the Monarchy, Belgium would have been a failed State and probably the two sections been would've been absorbed by France and the Netherlands.
From The Mad Monarchist (6 December 2011)
Yes, it has finally happened. With the threat of the whole of the European Union going down in economic flames, the bitterly divided parties of Belgium have come together with at least a temporary agreement and formed a new government. After a record-breaking 541-days without an official government (breaking the records set by war-torn Iraq and Cambodia) the long-suffering King Albert II of the Belgians swore in Francophone socialist leader Elio Di Rupo as Prime Minister. For me, as I have said before, having a gay Italian socialist who doesn't believe in God as PM of the Kingdom of Belgium is not the sort of thing I would have ever wished for but, alas, there is not much room to be very discriminating anymore. He at least wants the country to continue and not break up to be absorbed by Holland and France so, that is a good thing. The monarchy will survive, Belgium will not be destroyed and there will be a government that can actually do something - even if I don't think it to be the right thing which I'm sure I won't. And, just think folks, in just a year or two more there will be new elections and we might get to go through all this fun all over again! Ain't democracy great? ...
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