If Belgium didn't already exist, would anyone take the trouble to invent it? Probably not. Sometimes it's right for a country to recognize that its job is done, says The Economist. I think they are right. Most Belgians I know couldn't care less about their nation. Let the Walloons and Flemings go their separate ways, and turn Brussels into a proper capital of the European Union:

Brussels can devote itself to becoming the bureaucratic capital of Europe. It no longer enjoys the heady atmosphere of liberty that swirled outside its opera house in 1830, intoxicating the demonstrators whose protests set the Belgians on the road to independence. The air today is more fetid. With freedom now taken for granted, the old animosities are ill suppressed. Rancour is ever-present and the country has become a freak of nature, a state in which power is so devolved that government is an abhorred vacuum. In short, Belgium has served its purpose. A praline divorce is in order.