Re: Yesterdays news
"CETA was held up because it had clauses that were not popular with a sub-national parliament representing fewer than 100,000 people"
That was one of the Belgium governments? Probably one of the communities (which is a government) They aren't sub-national, they are all equal. All seven of them. Witloof engineering at it's finest. It's not an arrangement like the assemblies in Scotland, Wales and NI are, they are fully autonomous governments.
Yeah, Belgium is mental. Great beer :)
It's also why Belgium works when it doesn't work.
Here's someone explaining it far better than me :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlwHotpl9DA
Biting the hand that feeds IT
