use of official languages in Belgium. A factor in the Belgian Revolution of the 1830s was the rising dominance of the Dutch language in the southern provinces...

extensive language legislation concerning Dutch, French and German, even though the Belgian Constitution does not explicitly mention which languages enjoy...

Belgium is a federal state comprising three communities and three regions that are based on four language areas. For each of these subdivision types,...

In Belgium, there are 27 municipalities with language facilities (Dutch: faciliteitengemeenten; French: communes à facilités; German: Fazilitäten-Gemeinden)...

Labour Court (Belgium) - Lamoral, Count of Egmont - Lanaken - Land of Herve - Langemark-Poelkapelle - Language legislation in Belgium - Larock, Victor...

Languages Belgium: Language legislation in Belgium Croatia: Croatian linguistic purism Finland: Finland's language strife France: Language policy in France...

Dutch and the French language. He is responsible for ensuring that the language legislation is observed in the municipalities in the Brussels Periphery...

Irredentism Language legislation in Belgium Municipalities with language facilities Partition of Belgium Politics of Belgium State reform in Belgium "Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde...

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the...

debate and legislation; however, political parties sometimes use it as a means of rewarding loyal members that were not elected. Prior to the Belgian federal...

boundaries of the Dutch-language area and of the bilingual area of Brussels-Capital. Unlike in the French Community of Belgium, the competences of the...

Parlament) is the bicameral parliament of Belgium. It consists of the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate. It sits in the Palace of the Nation (Dutch: Paleis...

their own lives. Such legislation requires manufacturers of weapons to refuse sales to those deemed at potential risk of suicide. In some jurisdictions,...

Languages English-only movement Language legislation in Belgium Languages of the European Union Multilingual education In Africa See the critical period hypothesis...

Prostitution in Belgium is legal and was decriminalized on 1 June 2022. Human trafficking or exploiting individuals involved in prostitution is punishable...

Belgium comprises 581 municipalities (Dutch: gemeenten; French: communes; German: Gemeinden), 300 of them grouped into five provinces in Flanders and 262...

of office, in either of the three official languages in Belgium: Dutch, French or German. Representatives can also choose to take the oath in more than...

both the French and the Dutch language and who must ensure that the legislation regarding the use of languages is observed in Brussels. The agreement following...

to prolonged negotiation but the legislation finally enacted, in 2003, was viewed as excessively lenient in Belgium. In 2007, a voluntary quality standard...

is legal in Belgium, but related activities such as organising prostitution and other forms of pimping are illegal. Enforcement varies, and in some areas...

respective language. For European Union legislation, the spelling of the words for the currency is prescribed for each language; in the English-language version...

refer to the national language as the Malaysian language (Bahasa Malaysia), although legislation still refers to the Malay language (Bahasa Melayu). As...

commercially available. In 1885, a change in legislation made brewing of German-style bottom-fermenting beers viable in Belgium, and it was only from then...

Belgian nationality law provides for the conditions in which a person holds Belgian nationality and is based on a mixture of the principles of jus sanguinis...

Belgium government. The language differences in Belgium have caused governmental and constitutional problems. Official languages are French, Dutch and German...

Wales (Official Languages) Act 2012". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved March 19, 2014. Crawford, James (June 24, 2008). "Language Legislation in the U.S.A."...

Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by...

soldiers in the Belgian army to campaign for greater use of Dutch language in education and government, though not separatist. The Germans left Belgium stripped...

guarantees the freedom to use any of the country's languages in Article 30. See also language legislation in Belgium. South Tyrol, a province of Italy, guarantees...

of Belgium arose around a struggle between the two main language communities of the country: Dutch and French. That resulted in extensive language legislation...