Three cheers for Belgium – sort of
Ingrid Robeyns of Crooked Timber, who’s been keeping tabs on Belgium’s ongoing political crisis, reports that
192 days after the federal elections, the Belgian federal politicians have finally agreed on a government. Yet it is not an ordinary government – rather, an emergency government which will only last for three months. The politicians prefer the term ‘interim government’, but that conceals the fact that the country is still faced with a political crisis….