The European Union has just lived through a moment of high democratic intensity. “We debated CETA passionately in cafés, at office and in the markets. Who could have imagined that?”asked delighted Minister-President Paul Magnette, adding that Wallonia would for ever be changed by this “CETA moment”. The epicentre of the seismic political shock that so gripped institutional Europe was, indeed, Wallonia and, more broadly, the French-speaking part of Belgium (see EUROPE 11658). ...