How can Belgium get out of its crisis?

Facing the current political stalemate, Laurent Moyse considers that Belgium should think up some new scenarios. "One solution would be to resort to a large coalition bringing together Flemish and French-speaking Christian-democrats, liberals and socialists. Other countries have chosen this compromise, despite deep ideological divergence separating the main protagonists. This is notably the case in Germany where great rivals, the CDU-CSU and the SPD have formed an ad hoc alliance which does not avoid the gritting of teeth. In other countries the refusal to resort to a big coalition to save the situation has led components to join forces with far less palatable movements, often in the far-right. Austria and Poland have for example experienced this, while Slovakia stands out for having united left wing ministers and deeply nationalist representatives in the same government ."

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