tl;dr from the article: "It had been decided that the new institutions would be chaired in turn by the ministers of each of the six member states. Which countr

tl;dr from the article: "It had been decided that the new institutions would be chaired in turn by the ministers of each of the six member states. Which country first?... A trivial random fact — Belgium starting with letter B — thus gave rise, first quite timidly, next with growing confidence, to a massive, irreversible fait accompli."