There has been no coup, no abdication, no revolution.
It is an event that has gone largely unnoticed. The media have hardly
spoken about it. Yet it is a reality. The monarchy in Belgium is done
with, over, kaput. The king of Belgium has turned himself out of his
royal throne by signing a law on March 9 that permits child euthanasia.
But some might say that this royal assent is not the end of the Belgian
monarchy, but, on the contrary, assures its longevity. As the newspaper,
La libre belgique
has stated, the Belgian king “has fulfilled his constitutional role
perfectly,” despite being pressured not to sign the law. Had he refused
to sign it, he might have been forced to abdicate and the monarchy
itself might have disappeared in Belgium, since it is already on shaky
ground.
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Marie Meaney received her doctorate and an M. Phil. in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. She is the author of Simone Weil’s Apologetic Use of Literature: Her Christological Interpretations of Classic Greek Texts (Oxford University Press, 2007). Her booklet Embracing the Cross of Infertility (HLI) has also appeared in Spanish, German, Hungarian and Croatian. Before the birth of her daughter, she was a teaching fellow at Villanova University. She now lives in Rome, Italy.
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