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Originally Posted by Lagun
I do not quite understand your position.
Are you in favour of spliting Belgium? If so, do you see Wallonia as an independent state? Even if you sort out the Brussels issue, what should it happen with the "German Belgium"?
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Well, I think I wouldn't mind Belgium to be split, and Wallonia as an independent state would be nonsense, both culturally and economically. Wallonia would benefit from a greater influence from France and shouldn't be culturaly isolated. The infamous lack of willpower of the Walloons come from the fact they have the subconscious feeling they have been deliberately isolated from greater cultures through the project called "Belgium", and this is the case with the Flemish as well, and this was well formulated by Charles de Gaulle. It would be a psychological boost. As for the economic problem, if the Belgian state is history, I guess the socialist party would be too. I think the German Belgians are like Walloons, they are apathetic, they lack willpower, they "don't care". This comes from the fact the people inhabiting present-day Belgium was never really master of its own destiny, but their belonging to such or such nation was a consequence of wars and foreign treaties, and not a consequence of the people's will, so they became passive and "let things going" unlike the French who got a spirit of revolution and "changing things".