Shaken by successive government crisis and more than ever divided between Flemish and Francophone Belgium took today, July 1, the Presidency of the European Union. Relay is taken from Spain by the Belgian Community leadership will continue until the end of the year. The 12th Belgian presidency comes at a critical moment in which unsolved problems and unfinished tasks are immensely, said yesterday. Among them stand the completion of the reform of regulations in the banking and financial sector, earning a European diplomatic service, strengthening European economic governance. The new Belgian government would intervene in power before October and the new ruling will not have much time to adapt. The previous government withdrew in late April when Prime Minister Yves Lyoterm resign after the Flemish liberal party Open VLD withdraw its support for the cabinet.
Czech scenario?
There is concern not to repeat the Czech scenario in which the EU has witnessed in the first half of last year. Then the Czech government fell from power – in the middle of the commitment of the Community presidency, leading to total loss of influence of Prague on European affairs. “Of course, Belgium is a European belief, but a country whose future is uncertain, not enjoy the great political trust,” said the agency Christian Frank, a professor at the Institute for European Studies at the Catholic University of Louvain.
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