Thursday, July 18, 2013

Voice of America: New Belgian King Faces Tough Task of Uniting Divided Nation

Voice of America
Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
New Belgian King Faces Tough Task of Uniting Divided Nation
Jul 18th 2013, 20:03, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)

The monarchy, along with soccer and beer, is viewed as one of the rare things that unify linguistically divided Belgium and when Prince Philippe becomes its new king on Sunday he will try to prove this is still so. The early signs are that he has work to do. In a poll conducted by the private TV stations VTM and RTL, just under half of all Flemish respondents believed Philippe would be a good king, compared to two-thirds of respondents in Wallonia. The political bickering between ...

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