When I traveled to Czech Republic, I met two Belgian guys in different cities, one from the Wallonie part (French speaking) and one speaks Flemish (Dutch speaking). I have read an article talking about their country-without-government. Then I asked them about the situation. Here I want to share what my friend, Jasper, told me.
當我在捷克旅遊時，在不同的城市遇到兩個來自不同地區不同語言(法語區以及荷語區)的比利時人，我曾經看過一篇報導，內容是關於比利時的無政府奇蹟，由於好奇，我問了朋友他們的看法，以下，我想要分享Jasper所告訴我的
"Belgium is a federal country, and after the federal elections of June 2010 it took almost 1,5 years to form a new government; that's a world record!
But in the meantime the regional governments were working as usual. After all the federal government doesn't have many competences, most stuff that is important for the economy is decided at the regional level. However, the budget allowance for the regional governments is decided at the federal level as well as most of the taxes. So without federal government the regional ones continued to work without spending too much (as there was no one competent to decide on increasing the budget). I think that it basically saved Belgium from a budget crisis.
The flemish-wallonian thing is an obsession in the country. They try to magnify the differences however small they are (apart from the languages which are very different). Once you leave the country you find out that they have much more in common than they would believe." (Jasper, 2013)
