The Current Challenges on Belgian Federalism and the Sixth Reform of the State

Since 1993, Belgium is officially a federal state, composed of three communities and three regions, as the first—new at the time—article of the Constitution proclaims. The history of federalism in Belgium is therefore quite recent. Nevertheless, the story is—much—longer since it starts with the independence of Belgium from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830. The inception of a state and the underlying causes of its creation, as well as its place on the map, the timing of its creation and the characteristics of the elites who take the lead and define the new state’s nature are of cru... Mehr ...