The country will be split by 2010...you can see it coming and almost everyone in Belgium has an opinion on it. The interesting thing...is that this split will have an effect on other countries as well. Germany’s Bavaria has a similar feeling being the “pump” of Germany. Most German politicians don’t want this topic to take off...realizing the impact on the rest of the country. If Bavaria were to split off...it’d be the most wealthy country in Europe within five years.
IF Bavaria split off and lowered it’s capital gains tax rates, tens of thousands of high net worth Bavarian families would repatriate their wealth to the Bavarian soil. Don’t see why the Swiss should be getting all that banking business anyway.