A quote from Associated Press, 19 September 2007

Belgium’s Gaming Commission took international gambling Web site Unibet.com to task Wednesday over allowing gamblers to try their luck and wager on when the country’s political crisis might come to an end. The commission said it filed a complaint with the Brussels prosecutors office claiming Unibet’s game of chance on when Belgium’s deeply divided political leaders will form a new national government was illegal under national law. [...]

Unibet’s Internet site offers gamblers 25 to 1 odds for those who think a new government will be formed before Oct.1, dropping to 2.5 to 1 if they pick a date after Dec. 1, 2007. [...] Online gamblers however, are not offered a wager on whether Belgium will survive as a country amid growing worries the nation’s unity is at stake due to deep political divisions.

 

A Throne in Brussels Author: Paul Belien ASIN: 184540033X

The warning contained in this book is simple: hold fast to your
national identity, you nations of Europe, or else dissolve, like Belgium,
in a sea of corruption and despair. (Roger Scruton)

 

 

On the current crisis in Belgium, see:

Trembling Thrones in Brussels, 18 September 2007