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  1. The names of the three regional institutions are borrowed from the name of the territory they represent. So we refer to (from north to south) the Flemish Region, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Walloon Region. The Regions have legislative and executive organs: these are known as the Regional Parliament and the Regional Government.
    • Walloon Region

      The Walloon Region has a legislative assembly, the Walloon Parliament. It has 75 members who are directly elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term. The members of the Walloon Parliament vote on decrees. These are the laws of the Region. They also exercise supervision over the Government of the Walloon Region, also known as the Walloon Government.

    • Flemish Region

      In Flanders, the powers of the Community and the Region are exercised by a single Parliament and a single Government: the Flemish Parliament and the Flemish Government. For information about the Flemish Region, you can consult the text about the Flemish Community. [[interne link naar Vlaamse Gemeenschap]] The other Regions of our country are the Brussels-Capital Region and the Walloon Region.

    • Brussels-Capital Region

      The executive power lies with the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region . The Government consists of one Minister-President and four ministers, two of them French-speaking and two Dutch-speaking. Three State Secretaries, at least one of whom must be Dutch-speaking, are added to the Regional Ministers.

    • Competence

      Regions have powers in fields that are connected with their region or territory in the widest meaning of the term. So the Flemish Region, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Walloon Region have powers relating to the economy, employment, agriculture, water policy, housing, public works, energy, transport (except Belgian Railways), the environment, town and country planning, nature conservation ...

  2. european-union.europa.eu

    Belgium is a federal constitutional monarchy in which the king is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government in a multi-party system. Decision-making powers are divided between 3 levels of government: the federal government, 3 language-based communities (Flemish, French and German-speaking) and 3 regions (Flanders ...
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    The Flemish Government is the executive branch of both the Flemish Region and the Flemish Community.. The coalition replaced the Jambon Government following the 2024 Belgian federal election and again consisted of three parties, together having a narrow majority of 65 seats out of 124 seats total. The N-VA (31 seats) and CD&V (16 seats) were already part of the outgoing coalition, with Vooruit ...
  4. In Flanders, the regional and community authorities come together in a single government and a single parliament. Belgium is aiming for multilateral cooperation insofar as the major challenges of the twenty-first century are no longer confined to national or regional borders, and as global responses are increasingly necessary.
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    The politics of Belgium take place in the framework of a federal, representative democratic, constitutional monarchy.The King of the Belgians is the head of state, and the prime minister of Belgium is the head of government, in a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Federal legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament, the ...
  6. diplomatie.belgium.be

    It has also played an active role in implementing the European Charter of Local Self-Government, the European framework agreement that governs cross-border cooperation between territorial authorities and entities. The Belgian delegation comprises 7 representatives in the Chamber of Regions and 7 representatives in the Chamber of Local Authorities.
  7. Regions have powers in fields that are connected with their region or territory in the widest meaning of the term. So the Flemish Region, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Walloon Region have powers relating to the economy, employment, agriculture, water policy, housing, public works, energy, transport (except Belgian Railways), the environment, town and country planning, nature conservation ...
  8. Under the reform of the state, the pyramid of the unitarian state made way for a more complex three-level structure. At the top level, we now find the Federal State, the Communities and the Regions, all three of which are equal from the legal viewpoint. They are on an equal footing but have powers and responsibilities for different fields.
  9. en.wikipedia.org

    Belgium, [a] officially the Kingdom of Belgium, [b] is a country in Northwestern Europe.The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to the south, and the North Sea to the west. It covers an area of 30,689 km 2 (11,849 sq mi) [4] and has a population of more than 11.7 million. [7] With 383/km 2 (990/sq mi), Belgium's ...
  10. sng-wofi.org

    OVERALL DESCRIPTION: Belgium has three tiers of subnational governments: six federated entities (including three regions and three communities), 10 provinces and 581 municipalities. STATE LEVEL: The federated level is composed of the three regions and the three communities. The Flemish Region (Vlaams Gewest) represents 44% of the Belgian territory and 57.7% of its population, while the Walloon ...
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