Arnon Grunberg

Deadlock

Reliable informer

Today in the International Herald Tribune: “With the chaos in Parliament, it is up to King Albert II to try and find a way out of the deadlock since elections in June for 6 million Dutch-speaking Flemings and 4.5 million French-speaking Walloons.
There was talk of moving toward a government that would deal with only urgent political and economic business, leaving the linguistic disputes for later, perhaps years from now.”

This is exactly what the mayor of Kortrijk told me on Saturday over lunch. See entry Europe.
The mayor is a reliable informer.