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The Brussels-Capital Region is one of the three federated regions of Belgium, alongside the Walloon Region and the Flemish Region. Geographically and linguistically, it is a bilingual enclave in the monolingual Flemish Region.
There are three Regions. The names of the three regional institutions are borrowed from the name of the territory they represent. So we refer to (from north to south) the Flemish Region, the Brussels-Capital Region and the Walloon Region.
The Brussels Region and its 19 municipalities lie at the heart of Belgium and a dynamic metropolis and are home to 1.2 million inhabitants. As the country's capital, it is also the seat of the Union's main institutions and has become the capital of 450 million Europeans. Read more
The Brussels Region and its 19 municipalities lie at the heart of Belgium and a dynamic metropolis and are home to 1.2 million inhabitants. As the country's capital, it is also the seat of the Union's main institutions and has become the capital of 450 million Europeans.
The Brussels-Capital Region will also be associated with events organised in collaboration with other federated entities, the federal government, and even the European Commission in areas such as social economy, animal welfare, research, and the Green Deal.
It is notable that Belgium is asymmetrically federalised. That is, the Flemish Region and Community have exercised their constitutional rights to merge competences into a single parliament and government while the other Regions and Communities have not opted to do so.
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The regional level, comprising three out of the six federated entities known as the Brussels-Capital Region, the Flemish Region and the Walloon Region. 1 It must be noted that the Flemish Region has never existed as an independent body; rather, the Flemish Region merged its institutions with those of the Flemish Community.
