Over 250 days have passed from general elections but Belgium is far from forming a government. The political deadlock, the longest one in the world (the second longest one is due to Iraq with 249 days without a government), does not reflect, on the contrary, the dynamism of the Belgian society. According to the latest data released by the Direction Statistique SPF Economie, in 2009 over 532 Belgians (5% of the entire population) moved to another municipality, often crossing the linguistic frontier, from Flanders to Wallonia and vice versa. A flexible labour market and new family dynamics partly explain this lively internal mobility. And this is a clear sign that the country is much more interconnected and cohesive than politics has shown so far.
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