Belgium once again faces the prospect of new elections, after last weekend’s final attempt by Bart De Wever to get the negotiating parties to agree a compromise proposal collapsed. As Flanders Today went to press, De Wever was scheduled to visit the royal palace and inform the King that his mission was a failure. No one doubts the King’s infinite facility for finding a way of prolonging the talking, but it is becoming increasingly clear to most experts that elections are rapidly becoming unavoidable.