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"Federal Loyalty" means that the partners in the federation should be loyal to each other. For example, they have to respect one another, and shouldn't interfere in each other's internal affairs. Territorial violations should be avoided at all time. Furthermore, the ideal situation would be that the partners would favour each other above foreign institutions.
In practice, this federal loyalty is often hard to find in Belgium, and the multitude of problems proves this. The next pages give some more examples of cases in which the Belgian partners rather fight each other than to work together, sometimes in a cunning way. It should not come as a surprise, that the federal government, or even foreign powers, are invoked.