you must earn a lot

If they have clear indications they should have the right to do this.

@zoz:
"You're not thinking realistically. De Wever is not going to get all he wants, because the entire institutional system is rigged against it. Wake up. You'd like 150, ask for 200 and get 100. Refusing anything less than 200, which you do, gets you in a sad lonely and powerless place: opposition."
He can't go for little changes, that would be electoral suicide. So IF he succeeds it also means the PS gets a whole lot in return. Now if you think the PS only has a walonian version of the spa program you are mistaken terribly.

"Seriously; how would you make that kind of 'money-back' demands happen the way the state is now, short of revolution and coercion?"
That is very simple. Pensions are a far bigger cost then unemployment aid. And Flanders is going to have the biggest part of the oldies. It is a HUGE amount of money and only need one mevrouw nee to counter any reforms. It would mean the transfers to Flanders would be much larger as any transfers to walonia ever were.

You don't have to do anything to achieve it except from doing nothing. That's the joke.

"2. Whatever we can get we should get."
Most things are European already. And no it would be ridiculous to split up the army, to split up the police or foreign matters. Not only will it be very costly, but also ridiculous.

They also caused this stagnation. They quite sooner. Thats all.

But you're not thinking it over. What will happen if he gets his "reform" you think?
1.) The biggest socialist reform in the history of Belgium PS style comrade zoz.
2.) Part of the social system will come to flanders. It can't be everything because the PS is against it. So it will be things like pensions.

THIS IS A DISASTER. After all this years of flanders paying walonia, walonia has to pay flanders back (there are far more old people in flanders)... and then we say no thank you, keep your money.

Take into consideration we come from only one person and doubled our membership in less then 3 days!

"On top of that, nothing is stopping Flanders from becoming an EU member state."
That is simply untrue. The procedure to become recognized as a country and to become a EU member both take some time. If they are allowed to that is.

And yes Bief, most things are decided on EU level. Most laws made on national level are only implementations of a EU guideline.

No zarf, I'm a true fartist. You simply don't understand!

I was disappointed in Obama almost from the start. Not that I expected much to be honest but I gave him a fair chance. I'm still waiting for his first brilliant act to happen as president of the united states. He has caused one disaster after another instead.

Why split belgium when it is going to be europe anyway?

lol

Wilders is playing it quit smart, saying to everybody who wants to hear it, he wants to compromise.

Rutte promises 3 weeks. Thats a stupid thing to do. It gives more power to the parties he needs to form a gov. (PVV and PVdA)

@bief:
"The forming of a governing coalition will be interesting."
lol. you mean very long. Its going to be the same way in belgium.

@WFS:
the only truth in them is that the people who participated with some probability told them the opinion the polls show.
1.) You ask only the opinion of a few people out of many.
2.) They can tell what they want.
3.) The people who have to note these opinions down (it often happens via telephone) can mishear or misinterpret what they hear.
4.) Those people can also note what they want.
5.) The questions can be misinterpreted, or can be to simple.

Next to that, the group interrogated is already very selective because they wanted to participate and have time to do so.

I worked as a programmer for a company who made polls long time ago. You would laugh at the way it is done. I keep telling everybody it is a lie. They often adjust figures so the result is possible in their eyes or to manipulate public opinion.