No Government and country vaLa magic formula of Belgium

There is a village in the heart of this Europe suffering that if la cava better than the other. Its public deficits is clear improvement: the era of 4.6 in 2010, 2011, 3.6 in 2.8 will be in 2012. Its growth is above average in 2010 was the 2 percent against the euro zone, 1.7 in the first quarter of this year was of 1 per cent against the 0.8 and the trend continues. Collapses the Italy Greece, trembles, even France feels collapse the ground under their feet and Germany walking on eggs. But Belgium offers no digits virtuous and industrious behaviour. Those of & Standard Poor's are frustrated: they had ready the thumbs down, but they had to put his hand in his pocket. What is the secret of Belgium? Simple, is to say: is Government by the beauty of 452 days ago. A power that not even the Iraq after the war, there began to form an Executive 289. Belgium is thus the acephalous but not paralysed. No institution, no stroke of palsy public machine, no out-of-control mechanism. Pensions are paid regularly, punctually garbage collections, (almost) normally treated patients and guarantee public order, decently. Trains are a bit late, but this always. That good Government is no Government?

In truth there is Government, led by Yves Leterme. Is there since 13 June 2010, which was election day. Would treat the "current business" for a few weeks in anticipation of an Executive fully legitimate politician, son of the polls. As you know, the situation shall be packed: in Flanders the Flemish separatist party N-Va had came close to 30 percent, and others did not find a point of mediation. While Yves Leterme served as a "Regent", opened a parallel negotiation which lasts to this day, given the political intelligence of Elio Di Rupo, a Socialist Italian-Walloon. Under his leadership, occasionally gather around a table eight party leaders. Without haste, for charity.
Last week, for example, the meeting was skipped because the Green Jean-Michel Javaux, who is also Mayor of the pleasant town of Amay, must imperatively attend City Council was to vote for the purchase of a new machine for fire and a new computer, mica bubbole. Di Rupo has a month to finish. After that, or gives birth to a new Executive which will be the Prime Minister (the first Walloon-speaking by 32 years, and also the first homosexual declared at the Summit in a European country), or you return to the polls.

As you see, is not missing the Government in the strict sense. Rather the game lacks political parties, confined by one and a half years in the room of the eight leaders. Consequently lacks the parliamentary conflict in all its glory, which in Italy we know well. The Regency of Yves Leterme will also be a weak point for democracy, but involves some benefits. First: Ministerial expenses are reduced to a minimum. Second: the Regent Prime Minister works on shelter by parliamentary bickering between Walloons and Flemings, can then operate on the basis of common sense and not to the point of mediation. Third: the same Leterme is exempted from the adoption of measures elettoralistico, and was able to present a financial unpolluted (for understood, no corporate assatanati amendments: localistici or also in Italy we know them well).

At the same time, the premier can play without a care tasks within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, Regent or less which is: has chaired the European Union in the second half of last year, and has also shipped some F-16 in Libya with the unanimous approval of Parliament.Foreign Affairs and defence, such as social security, 95 per cent of the taxation, addresses economic, telecommunications, in short everything that touches the "national interest", is the responsibility of the Central Government. The rest, it's good to know, is entrusted with five other Governments, regional and community. Is federalism that holds the Belgian corpaccione, or at least that ensures an easy survival by 452 days ago. It puts him at the shelter, however, from a possible evaporation State and policy of Yugoslavia, even in the absence of armed conflict. It would be the task of political forces, now in mothballs. But that's another story, neither administrative nor accounting officer.

from The daily event of September 8, 2011

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