IN A COUNTRY THAT PRIDES ITSELF ON ITS MODESTY, A VICTORY COULD LEAD TO AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS.
In 2010, King Albert II of Belgium, in a speech at the Royal Palace in Brussels, defined his people’s characteristics. They were, he said, modest, open, creative, pragmatic and good at compromise. They also possessed “the ability not to take ourselves too seriously.”
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