A quote from The Independent, 11 September 2007

A "quickie" divorce of Belgium into two separate, sovereign states is unlikely. [...] In the longer run, a sour but peaceful separation, on the Czech and Slovak model, can no longer be discounted. [...] A strong Belgium is still important to Britain and to the EU. It is a great irony – beloved of Europhobes – that Belgium, one of the greatest advocates of a federal Europe, cannot make sense of its own federal system.