Zusammenfassung der Ressource
POWER SHARING
- ETHNIC COMPOSITION
- IN BELGIUM
- SPEAKING GROUP
- FRENCH - 40% LIVING IN WALLONIAN REGION
- RICH AND POWERFUL
- GERMAN - 1%
- DUTCH - 59% LIVING IN FLEMISH REGION
- POORER
- IN BRUSSELS
- 80% - FRENCH SPEAKING
- 20% - DUTCH SPEAKING
- PROBLEMS IN BELGIUM
- LACK OF SIMILARITY BETWEEN FRENCH AND DUTCH SPEAKING PEOPLE DURING 1950s - 1960s
- DUTCH SPEAKING WERE IN MAJORITY IN BELGIUM BUT MINORITY IN BRUSSELS
- ACCOMODATION
- IN 1970 - 1993 CONSTITUTION AMENDED FOUR TIMES
- NUMBER OF DUTCH SPEAKING AND FRENCH SPEAKING WERE LIKE TO BE EQUAL IN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
- STATE GOVERNMENT WERE GIVEN MORE POWER THAN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
- BRUSSELS HAD A SEPERATE GOVERNMENT IN WHICH BOTH SPEAKING COMMUNITIES HAD EQUAL REPRESENTATION
- THERE WAS A THIRD KIND OF GOVERNMENT , THAT IS COMMUNITY GOVERNMENT , WHICH WAS ELECTED FROM EACH LANGUAGE AND NO MATTER WHERE THEY LIVE