Belgium ratified the EU’s Lisbon Treaty last week when, after much pressure, the Flemish regional parliaments OK-ed the treaty with only the Flemish Secessionist Vlaams Belang voting against the EU treaty. A Belgian government is now no longer needed and Belgium can return to its limbo situation of non-government.
The Belgian government of Prime Minister Yves Leterme has fallen. Belgium has been in a political crisis since the elections of June 10, 2007, when the parties in Flanders, the...