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The poll also showed that a unitary Belgian state was supported by 22% of the Flemish, 50% of the Brusselers and 51% of the Walloons, and that 16% of the Flemish wished a split of Belgium. It is interesting to compare this with the 40.8% of Flemings who voted for a party advocating Flemish independence during the 2010 election.
Thirty minutes into the broadcast, on demand of the media minister of the French-speaking community in Belgium, Fadila Laanan , an on-screen message identified it as fiction. The hoax was the creation of the journalist Philippe Dutilleul and had been prepared over a period of 2 years under the codename BBB for Bye-bye Belgium.
Political reform. The Belgian Senate will no longer be directly elected, but will instead become an assembly of regional parliaments, with fewer members.; After Flanders and Wallonia as the Flemish and French-speaking Communities, the Brussels-Capital Region and German-speaking Community will also have constitutive autonomy.
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A map showing the current Irish border. The repartition of Ireland has been suggested as a possible solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.In 1922 Ireland was partitioned on county lines, and left Northern Ireland with a mixture of both unionists, who wish to remain in the United Kingdom, and nationalists, who wish to join a United Ireland.
Spain, Ireland, Belgium and Malta want EU leaders to debate the situation in Gaza next week and jointly call for a lasting humanitarian ceasefire that would end the conflict, a letter to the ...
Northern Ireland's sectarian divisions can be traced back to the 17th Century, when Protestant settlers from Scotland and England were "planted" in the northeastern part of the island to bolster ...
The first article of the Belgian Constitution was amended to read as follows, “Belgium is a Federal State which consists of communities and regions”. During the fourth state reform, the responsibilities of the Communities and the Regions were expanded again, their resources were increased and they were given more fiscal responsibilities.