ABSTRACT
B elgium is famous for its exquisite chocolate, its exceptional beers, its unique tradition of cartoonists, and other marvels, of which one may be a most complex political system in the world. For ages, the two main ethnic and cultural groups in the country, the Dutch-speaking on the one hand (roughly 60% of the Belgian population) and the French-speaking on the other, have been engaged in heated negotiations over how one should organize the country. For any outsider, these debates often lead to what can be described as surrealistic political engineering. This seems to be the price to pay for peaceful relationships between the two groups.
