The Brussels Puzzle

... elites, influenced by the growing economic might of their region, were unwilling to finance the economically and socially weaker Wallonia and set out to legislatively consolidate the confederation concept. They would like to see each part of Belgium self-financed,... ... means fits either the realities of the Kingdom of Belgium or the European-wide context of the construction of a homogeneous European Union. The EU is not at all willing to see Belgium split, as its capital at the same time serves as its political and ...