POWER SHARING

POWER SHARING

1. 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