Yves Leterme

Van Rompuy: Dull, unwilling but good for Belgium

…Yves Leterme, the Flemish nationalist (well, autonomist) (um, dominationalist?) politician who became prime minister even though he couldn’t remember his country’s national anthem, is skidding through deadlock after procedural stall after confrontation in the country’s parliament and it is not at all clear, after only seven weeks, whether his government can survive. Or his country.