http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210310-154152-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/belgiums-accordion-response-to-covid-19/ Belgium’s Accordion Response to COVID-19 De Ridder, Maaike eng 2021-03-10 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Belgium COVID 19 Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 As Covid-19 started to make its way onto Belgian territory, the Belgian federal government found itself in the midst of political disorder and negotiations to form a government after the May 2019 elections. Up until March 2020, the competent authority to decide on Covid measures was a caretaker minority government (Regering Wilmès I). But, after the first big outburst of cases in Belgium, the government formation accelerated. Nine political parties made a deal to give the resigning minority government full authority to combat the virus and its economic and social ramifications by a motion of confidence (Regering Wilmès II).