Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Belgian Politics

is updated in this post from Ingrid Robeyns.

America’s founding fathers didn’t want the capital to be in New York or Virginia, so they invented Washington, DC. The EU’s founders didn’t their headquarters in France or Germany and chose Brussels. Whether there’s a lesson in there is hard to say.

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1. Guy Says:
   September 19th, 2007 at 11:17 am

   Highly recommended link.

   If anyone is interested, I could do a little follow-up post here one AFOE, to maybe try and clarify some of the Flemish language sensibilities.

2. Abdul-Rahim Says:
   September 19th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

   Try Luxembourg next time?

3. claudia Says:
   September 19th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

   Doug — beat me to it. I was going to post that link today.

   It is pretty thorough, isn’t it?

   Doug M.

4. Hektor Bim Says:
   September 19th, 2007 at 9:43 pm

   I’m interested, Guy

5. Guy Says:
   September 20th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

   Okay, Hektor, just give me some time. No matter how I am going to write this up, it is bound to be controversial and, partly, subjective.