[Kaslin]

The rest of the title is: if Politicians from Brussels Are Criticizing Germany for Being too Capitalistic

[Theoria]

Here is a example of Europe that I always chuckle at.

One part of the building is Germany, the other the Netherlands.

It takes mail a week to go from one part of the building to the other.

The dutch get more vacation time and benefits, the Germans get to watch the Dutch take vacations.

Eurode Business Center...lol

[Carry_Okie]

P.P.S. This story helps to explain why I want Belgium to split apart. If it became two nations, one Dutch and one French, I suspect we’d get better policy because they would then compete with each other instead of nagging Germany to become more statist.

Belgium always has been a weird duck. I haven't spent much time in Walloon but Flanders always did seem much like Holland. I suspect they tolerate the Walloonians much like the rest of Europe deals with France... 'the food is good, but... (list)'.

[hinckley buzzard]

Belgium has been a screwed up country forever. In WWII they were "neutral," tried to keep British troops out of their territory even as the Wehrmacht was crossing their borders.

Guess they've finally decided to take sides.

[Fzob]

I was in Brussels, Belgium on business about six or seven years ago. Dirty city, the government was shutdown for some unknown reason and it’s building boarded up and filled with graffiti, no one cared the government was shutdown, every street has a sign in Dutch and French, and they have been fighting for over 200 years about what language to speak.