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Belgium: The weak link of the North

Fears that Belgium might be the ‘Greece of the North’ have not yet been picked up by the markets. (See Chart 1.) But with persisting weaknesses in the banking sector and a renewed bout of political instability, risks to the economic and fiscal outlook are growing.

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