fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week agoAn unprecedented void': Brussels goes record-breaking 542 days without a government
The city has now surpassed the record of the country as a whole, which made headlines around the world in 2010-11 when it took 541 days to form a government, the longest period to form an administration in peacetime. Brussels, however, like Northern Ireland, which went 729 days without a government, will escape the ignominy of entering the Guinness World Records, which counts only sovereign states.
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