Update 12.18pm: The Belgian government has reached an agreement to back the free trade deal between the European Union and Canada.

Over four months after elections, efforts to form a new government flopped again in an enduring spat between Belgium’s Dutch and French-speaking camps that touches on the fate of the country as a unitary state.

THE Walloon government is suing Ryanair for around €2.3 million in the Irish courts, it emerged yesterday.