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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12408

22 January 2020
Contents Publication in full By article 1 / 35
BEACONS
BEACONS: At the heart of the EU, the slow suicide of a founder State (1)

Will the Kingdom of Belgium celebrate its bicentenary in ten years? It’s no longer a safe bet.

A small State that was given its name by major powers, but was born out of revolutionary insurrection, then given a constitution that was highly progressive at the time, Belgium was an industrial champion in the middle of the 19th century; it acquired a colony in Africa, on contested grounds. Weakened by two world wars and then by the matter of the Royal family, it would take a very active part...

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