[LINK] Two more Belgium links

[rfmcdonald]

• Crooked Timber's Ingrid Robeyns sparked an interesting debate ("Quo Vadis Belgium?") with her observations that Dutch-speakers and Francophones in Belgium represent the current events in different ways, inspiring commenters to volunteer a few of these different perceptions.


• Vincent De Roeck at libertarian.be argues ("The EU brought Belgium on the edge of the abyss") that Belgium's use of the Euro has allowed the current political crisis to take place, by allowing politicians to arrive at such a spectacular impasse without fear of causing a currency crisis.