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Friday, September 21, 2007

So Much for a United Europe

I wonder if this will have any effect on the value of the euro ...

Calls for a Breakup Grow Ever Louder in Belgium

This flat, Maryland-size country of 10.4 million is a bad marriage writ large — two nationalities living together that cannot stand each other.

A poll by the private Field Research Institute released on Tuesday indicated that 66 percent of the inhabitants of Flanders believe that the country will split up “sooner or later,” and 46 percent favor such a division.
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