Belgian federal elections are the 13th of June. Dutch national elections are held on the 9th.

Which one are you refering to? Joran van der Sloot is Dutch.

Why are you concerned with the obscurity of Belgian politcs?

Anyhow, I doubt there will be a strong national goverment. The old problems andgrudges still exist and I don't see an easy or fast solution.

"Thats a third world nation in Africa right?"

Depends on which suburb of Brussels you visit.

I was trying to be humorous about stereotypes of American disinterest/knowledge in things European.

"Brussels is an apple of discord. Things aren't as bad as it is shown on most Flemish media. I've lived there for some time and I must say the situation overall is a lot better than Antwerp.."

Do you mean that immigrants misbehave even more so in Antwerp? Or do you mean the lower classes that work in the harbour? I suppose in part it can be compared to Rotterdam.

"Do you mean that immigrants misbehave even more so in Antwerp? Or do you mean the lower classes that work in the harbour? I suppose in part it can be compared to Rotterdam."

The harbour of Antwerp is a magnet to all sorts of criminal activities. Antwerp has a proportional larger population of drug addicts as well.

"Best is to split up Belgium in 3 parts: Flandern, Walloon and Eupen-Malmedy. The first two may create new states and Eupen-Malmedy joins germany (again)."

You take language as the only means of measure. That's not correct, as Switzerland clearly shows. Belgians across the language border have more in common with eachother than with their neighbours. Most of them don't seem to realise that. There is a sense of timid  Belgianness (and exactly that form is Belgian), but it only surfaces when we're abroad.

lol yeah it's all the fault of the walloons lol.

flemish politicians are acting like puppets of the waloons jesus.

splitting isn't a good idea though; 1 we are already a small country, 2: language wise brussels is a part of flanders but a lot of ppl in there speak french;

and history has shown us that if you force a certain population to learn a certain language as their mother language they are not happy, will revolt and eventually join walloons and we do need brussels lol.

I have been considering a coup d'etat

in most places Primo could be deported for that post...but reporting him, just means he'd start with national law enforcement

PRIMO:  Bent u politieagenten....of bent u Belgen?
COPS (kneeling): Beevel ons!

for the record though I believe that the NV-A's election victory will be smaller than is predicted in the pre-election polls, Belgian polls are notoriously unrealiable

polls are unreliable by default..

A strong N-VA is in many ways a good thing, but they shouldn't be part of the actual government now. It's probably best for everyone if they chose to be in the opposition.
BHV will be split more easily, a state reform would be easier etc. The N-VA has chances to mature and could become a full fledged party in the next elections. I fear they still lack a bit of subtile politics. They'd make great opposition though!
Don't get me wrong, I rather like the N-VA. I'd never vote for them, but they're a proper party that drains all the lost votes on silly parties like VB and LDD. And it realizes concessions have to be made. I'd never vote for them though (well, I'd rather vote them than VLD).