Get ready for break-up of Belgium: top minister | Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Get ready for break-up of Belgium: top minister | Radio Netherlands Worldwide: "Leading francophone Socialist Laurette Onkelinx, considered a potential successor to party chief Elio Di Rupo, who gave up on negotiations with separatist Flemish leaders on Friday, gave her prognosis in a newspaper interview.

'Let's hope it doesn't come to that because if we split, it will be the weakest who will pay the heaviest price,' she told La Derniere Heure. 'On the other hand, we can no longer ignore that among a large part of the Flemish population, it's their wish.

'So yes, we have to get ready for the break-up of Belgium. Otherwise we're cooked."

Comments: At some point we need a boarder. If not now, when? OK we could give up California (and maybe Oregon) but after that we should put our foot down. Please elect Jerry Brown, he will fit in nicely with the new (old) reality.