Here's another "Only in Belgium"

On one hand you have the 4 stooges promoting investment in Belgium..., on the other, they are regulating national treasures to death.

They make the best chips in the world. But the traditional huts that sell perfect pomme frites in public squares and car parks across Belgium are battling against death by overregulation. STORY IN THE TIMES

Ever greater demands to account for hygiene, stock and staff have led to the numbers of genuine street frietkots tumbling from 5,000 to around 1,200 over the past two decades.

The Belgium version of "West Side Story"

Belge side story
by Indyiv

What could be more frightenening than the MOULES versus the FRITES!

But will we still be able to get Waffles?

Arrêtez!... This could be the end of Belgium

Yves Leterme, the Flemish politician and party leader who is struggling to put together a ruling coalition after Flemish-speaking separatists made striking electoral gains, has declared Belgium "an accident of history".

Belgium has long been the butt of jokes from its larger European neighbours. But to its French-speaking minority, the current political crisis is no laughing -matter. READ ON