Oh the irony. As I have been writing about almost obsessively as of late, while the idiotic EU bureaucrats pat themselves on the back for “saving Europe,” their disastrous policies are actually pushing individual countries themselves towards a dissolution into smaller regions! I first touched on this in my piece Forget the Euro…Will Spain Ultimately Break Up? I then wrote about how the independence movement in Venice is gaining steam in First Catalonia in Spain; Now Venice Wants to Leave Italy!
Well now it is Belgium’s turn. From the Financial Times:
Flemish nationalists made sweeping gains across northern Belgium in local elections on Sunday, a success that will bolster separatists’ hopes for a break-up of the country.
Bart De Wever, leader of the New Flemish Alliance (NVA), is set to become mayor of the northern city of Antwerp, Belgium’s economic heartland, after his party emerged as the largest one, ending about 90 years of socialist rule.
Soon after the ballot results were made public, Mr De Wever, who had turned the tough mayoral race into a referendum on Flander’s independence for Belgium, demanded that the country’s prime minister give greater independence to the Dutch-speaking north.
The strong result recorded by the Flemish nationalist is likely to have an impact across Europe, where the sovereign debt crisis, which has seen rich countries bail out poor ones, has revived separatist sentiment throughout the continent.
Repeat after me: The Euro is irreversible.
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In Liberty,
Mike
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I heard Bernake loves belgium waffles…sprinkles the white powder on top and YUMMMMMMM