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Show posts MenuQuotePrime Minister Yves Leterme has tendered his government's resignation to the king after failing to carry out political reforms.
Mr Leterme had set a 15 July deadline to push through measures to devolve more power to the regions.
He took office in March - after nine months of political deadlock - as the head of a coalition of Dutch and French-speaking parties.
King Albert II has yet to decide whether to accept the resignation.
The government coalition includes Mr Leterme's Flemish Christian Democrats from the north as well as Socialists from the French-speaking region of Wallonia in the south.
The prime minister was due to present a state reform deal in a speech to parliament on Tuesday.
Before last June's general election, Mr Leterme had promised his supporters even more devolved powers for regional governments in a country that is already Europe's most decentralised state.
In French-speaking Wallonia - where unemployment is higher and the economy sluggish - there were fears this would leave their region worse off.
No single party bridges the linguistic and geographic gulf between Belgium's two regions.
Traditionally, the prime minister comes from one of the majority Flemish parties.
QuoteHugo Maurice Julien Claus (April 5, 1929 in Bruges, Belgium, March 19, 2008 in Antwerp, Belgium) was a Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director. He was considered to be one of the most important contemporary Dutch language authors.[attribution needed]
Hugo Claus was born in Bruges. Under the pseudonym Dorothea van Male, he published the novel Schola Nostra (1971). He also used the pseudonyms Jan Hyoens and Thea Streiner.
In 1983, he published Het verdriet van België ("The Sorrow of Belgium"), which is probably his most famous book.
Claus was also a dramatist. He has written 35 original pieces and 31 translations from English, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish and Dutch plays and novels.
Hugo Claus had been connected with the Nobel Prize in Literature for several years, but he claimed to have given up hope of ever receiving it.
QuoteClaus suffered from Alzheimer's disease and requested his life to be terminated through euthanasia in the Middelheim Ziekenhuis in Antwerp on March 19, 2008