Long Reads: Anton Jäger on Belgium, the World's Most Successful Failed State?
Jacobin Radio
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What Is the Impact of Colonization and Decolonization in the Congo on Belgian Politics?
In the late six s, in 19 seventies, as belgium becomes a properly federal state, that the previously unitary parties start to divide. So you have the genesis of a liberal flemish party and then a french peaking a liberal party. And at the same time, you also have the division of the socialist party into a flemish wing and into a french speaking wing. This officializes eternal divide which was always there, but which was never expressed on the level of party politics in such an explicit way. The unions don't actually undergo that process of internal division. So they have rolonan and they have flemish branches, but they are still unit
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