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...
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extensive language legislation concerning Dutch, French and German, even though the Belgian Constitution does not explicitly mention which languages enjoy...
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Belgium is a federal state comprising three communities and three regions that are based on four language areas. For each of these subdivision types,...
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In Belgium, there are 27 municipalities with language facilities (Dutch: faciliteitengemeenten; French: communes à facilités; German: Fazilitäten-Gemeinden)...
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Labour Court (Belgium) - Lamoral, Count of Egmont - Lanaken - Land of Herve - Langemark-Poelkapelle - Language legislation in Belgium - Larock, Victor...
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Languages Belgium: Language legislation in Belgium Croatia: Croatian linguistic purism Finland: Finland's language strife France: Language policy in France...
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Dutch and the French language. He is responsible for ensuring that the language legislation is observed in the municipalities in the Brussels Periphery...
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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...
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Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (category Federalism in Belgium)
Irredentism Language legislation in Belgium Municipalities with language facilities Partition of Belgium Politics of Belgium State reform in Belgium "Brussel-Halle-Vilvoorde...
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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...
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Flemish Community (redirect from Flemish Community in Belgium)
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...
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their own lives. Such legislation requires manufacturers of weapons to refuse sales to those deemed at potential risk of suicide. In some jurisdictions,...
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Multilingualism (redirect from Multilingual language)
Languages English-only movement Language legislation in Belgium Languages of the European Union Multilingual education In Africa See the critical period hypothesis...
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Prostitution in Belgium is legal and was decriminalized on 1 June 2022. Human trafficking or exploiting individuals involved in prostitution is punishable...
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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...
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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...
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Belgium comprises 581 municipalities (Dutch: gemeenten; French: communes; German: Gemeinden), 300 of them grouped into five provinces in Flanders and 262...
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Governor of the Administrative Arrondissement Brussels-Capital (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
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...
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refer to the national language as the Malaysian language (Bahasa Malaysia), although legislation still refers to the Malay language (Bahasa Melayu). As...
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respective language. For European Union legislation, the spelling of the words for the currency is prescribed for each language; in the English-language version...
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to prolonged negotiation but the legislation finally enacted, in 2003, was viewed as excessively lenient in Belgium. In 2007, a voluntary quality standard...
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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...
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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...
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is legal in Belgium, but related activities such as organising prostitution and other forms of pimping are illegal. Enforcement varies, and in some areas...
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Wales (Official Languages) Act 2012". Legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved March 19, 2014. Crawford, James (June 24, 2008). "Language Legislation in the U.S.A."...
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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...
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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...
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Belgium government. The language differences in Belgium have caused governmental and constitutional problems. Official languages are French, Dutch and German...
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Special law (category Belgian legislation)
a type of legislation. A special law, or qualified majority law, is a type of legislation in Belgium which requires a qualified majority in both chambers...
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the language of the majority of the population, as the official language of the provincial government. It is the central piece of legislation that forms...
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