Flemish Community

The term Flemish Community has two distinctive, but closely related meanings:

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• sociologically, politically and culturally, it refers to the Flemish people and all their organisations, media, social and cultural life; one might also speak of the Flemish nation (in a very similar sense as the Scottish nation, the Basque, Catalan or Québec nations);
• institutionally, it refers to one of the three communities, established by the Belgian constitution.

However, nowadays, the Flemish Community, differing from the two other communities, became a particular 'sui generis' institutions since the immediate unification of all institutions of both Flemish Region and Flemish Community. Formally speaking, the Flemish Community absorbed all institutions of the Flemish region. Since then, the Flemish 'nation' enjoys its own, unified parliamentary assembly (the Flemish parliament, its own governement and administration, all based in Brussels.

Related Topics:
Flemish Region - Flemish Community - Flemish parliament - Brussels

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