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> What this english article also misses is that the Belgian government becomes liable for the damages. This was discussed in the local press.

How does that work when there is no government, as in Belgium ?

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We do have a govt, it's just the elected parties that can't agree on how to govern together so in the meantime there's some interim setup. Or something along those lines. It's such a non issue that nobody even notices. I wonder if anyone at all is impacted.

Yes, we're living in an advanced democracy. The country doesn't grind to a halt when there's a political disagreement.

You are using two different meanings of “government”, one refers to the machinery of state and one to the regular political leadership of that machinery endowed with certain powers by virtue of meeting certain procedural rules. The first is where the liability lies and is not interrupted, the second is interrupted as a result of no leadership currently meeting the procedural standards, but not critical to the issue at hand.

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