Belgium has been without a government for 9 months and 10 days. There is a major linguistic and cultural fault line in Belgium that separates those of French kinship and language. The Flemish and Walloons are divided roughly between those two major groups, so much so that it was impossible to form a majority government. With the recent political impasse it has become a city very much on edge. Brussels is located within Flanders and is its capital, yet 80 percent of its inhabitants are French speaking.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2122504/world-view—brussels-on-edge.html