The regional elections were held on 9 June 2024, alongside the Federal and European elections. All of Belgium’s parliaments were able to return majorities, enabling them to form their executives, with the exception of Brussels. This was absolutely unprecedented!
For more than a century, Belgium has been a unitary State, relatively decentralised with its nine provinces and countless municipalities (communes). In the 1950s, centrifugal forces began to develop on the basis of infra-national...