Flemish Community

Flemish Community ( Dutch) Communauté flamande (French)

The Flemish Community ( Dutch- Flemish Community, French Communauté flamande ) is next to the French Community and the German-speaking Community one of the three communities of the Kingdom of Belgium and thus a constituent state of the Belgian Federal State.

In addition to the three communities, there are three (not congruent) regions in Belgium. The Flemish Community is the Dutch-speaking Belgians, regardless of whether they live in the Flanders region or in the bilingual region of Brussels-Capital.

Responsibilities

In the competence of the Communities in Belgium drop the policy culture, education, language, and parts of the social system, ie for the needs of the people. The regions, meanwhile, with policies that are more basic relation, such as housing and transport.

The Flemish Community is responsible both for the inhabitants of Flanders and for the Dutch-speaking part of the population of the Brussels- Capital Region, which are there between six and 15 percent, depending on the district.

Design and operation

The institutions of the Flemish Community ( parliament and government ) were in 1980 merged with those of the Flemish Region. The originating from the Brussels -Capital Region Members of the Flemish Parliament only in matters of voting rights that fall within the competence of the Flemish Community, however, not in those which fall within the competence of the Flemish Region. Seat of the common institutions of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region Brussels.

In contrast, the French Community, with its headquarters in Brussels and the Walloon Region are both spatially and institutionally each other with their headquarters in Namur separate facilities.