BRUSSELS: Carles Puigdemont’s exile in Brussels is proving a stiff test for the fragile government of Belgium, a country with a history of communal divisions that run as deeply as Catalonia’s, analysts said.

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel was forced to deny Wednesday that there was a “political crisis” in his country over the deposed Catalan leader’s flight from Spanish justice.

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