There are few enough pleasures associated with Belgian elections, let's face it, so it was a rare treat to see among the results of 7 June a fine case of Virtue Rewarded and privilege thrown down.

New radio station MNM is faring less well than Donna, the station it replaced on the dial, according to figures from the VRT, the Flemish public broadcasting authority. At its launch, listening figures for the new station were said to be up 40% compared with its predecessor but, only months later, the shine appears to have worn off.

A judge in Ghent has placed an injunction on the construction of a GSM mast in Drongen, just west of Ghent. The judge agreed with the plaintiffs, a group of local residents, that the uncertainty surrounding the health effects of GSM transmitters meant that the construction was not in their interest. The mast would have been sited in proximity to a residential area, a primary school and a youth centre.

The outcome of elections cannot be measured in votes alone: the immediate effects spread across all sectors, and the longer-term effects reach everyone in time. This week, after the counting was all over and the ballot-boxes had been put away, the parties settled down to negotiations aimed at forming governing coalitions at all levels from the Flemish region down to the lowliest municipal backwater. In the absence of results for those negotiations, Flanders Today took stock of the elections and their results, to draw up a list of winners and losers.