A quote from the Texas chapter of the League of the South, 30 September 2007

Ironically, [the crisis in Belgium] rises in the news as the League of the South holds its National Meeting in Chattanooga to coincide the Secessionist Conference.  The people of Flanders should be able to decide whether or not they want to be included with Belgium. The government in Brussels has done little to insure the safety and community of its citizens. The League supports and applauds the sovereign people of Flanders in their efforts at attaining independence.

A quote from The Tiraspol Times, 30 September 2007

Talks of splitting Belgium in two are being watched closely in both Chisinau and Tiraspol. Belgium is an artificial country which was created 170 years ago out of two separate groups with no prior history. And just like Belgium, Moldova and Transdniestria also don’t have a shared historical or ethnic past. […]

A leading Belgium politician, the Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, visited both Moldova and Transdniestria in 2006. As the OSCE chairman he wanted to force Transdniestria into becoming part of Moldova, advocating a so-called “territorial integrity” which Moldova has never been able to enforce and which is now increasingly dubious in his own country; Belgium.