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The Flemish Community refers sociologically to the Flemish people and all their organisations, media, social and cultural life, and, institutionally, to one of the three communities, established by the Belgian constitution . However, nowadays, the Flemish Community, which differs from the two other communities, became a rather theoretical concept since the immediate unification of all institutions of both Flemish Region and Flemish Community. The Flemish Community has no operating institutions anymore: no parliamentary assembly, no governement nor civil servants. All its competencies were transferred to the unified institutions (see also Flanders).

1 Competencies

Under the Belgian constitution, the following areas of competencies are given to the Flemish Community:

education (except for degree requirements, ... and for more than 95 % of its financing);
culture and language matters (except for all its economic aspects that remain on Belgian level);
certain aspects of health care (very tiny part of the entire public health policy);
agriculture (although most competencies in this area moved to the European Union);
public works and regional economic development; and
energy (although more than 95% of actual competencies in this area remain on Belgian level);
international development cooperation in all areas of the competency of the (not yet operational).

The Flemish Community has almost no financial autonomy at all. It receives more than 95 % of its budgets from national, Belgian funds. Moreover, for its very limited own fiscal powers, it is severely restricted by Belgian rules on how much it can (must) tax and spend.

In addition, the Flemish Community, just like the Flemish region, have no Court of Auditors, nor any judicial courts of its own.

2 Language

Dutch is the official language of the Flemish community. Minorities speak French, Yiddish, Turkish, Arabic, Berber, Italian, Spanish, English and German. Most of these groups are recent immigrants. Jews form the oldest minority (since Middle Ages) that kept its own identity, followed by the French-speaking minority.

In certain municipalities along the border with the Wallon and the Brussels region, French-speakers enjoy language facilitiesThe municipalities with linguistic facilities or municipalities with facilities ( Dutch: faciliteitengemeenten , French: communes a facilites ) are a small group of Belgian municipalities with special law provisions to protect rights of their (historic) l. Similar facilities are enjoyed by Flemings and German-speakers in WalloniaWallonia ( French: Wallonie or Walloon Region (French: Region Wallonne is the predominantly French-speaking region that constitutes one of the three federal regions of Belgium, with its capital at Namur. It encompasses the southern half of Belgium and com, and by French-speakers in the German-speaking territories.

Dialects tended to be very strong, and particular to every locality. Since the Second World War, the influence of radio, television, and with more people moving out of their region of birth, the use of the original dialects tends to decrease, and to fade away. Differences between the regional dialects erode, and new types of intermediate dialects appears. These are often called, in Dutch, verkavelingsvlaams.

In BrusselsBrussels ( French: Bruxelles Dutch: Brussel German: Brussel is a major city in Belgium and its capital. Overview Brussels is first of all a city located in the middle of Belgium and its capital, but it sometimes also refers to the main municipality of the, the local dialect is heavily influenced by the French, both in pronunciation, as in vocabulary. However, most Flemings in Brussels do not speak the local dialect. This is certainly partly due to the large numbers of young Flemings coming to Brussels, and others moving out.

3 Flemish institutions in Brussels

The Brussels region does not have real provincial institutions. Most provincial competencies were attibuted to the official Brussels-Capital RegionThe Brussels-Capital Region ( French: Region de Bruxelles-Capitale Dutch: Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest German: Region Brussel-Hauptstadt or Brussels Region (French: Region Bruxelloise Dutch: Brusselse Gewest is one of the three regions of Belgium. Histo, for all territorial tasks, and to the two official communities for all its community competencies (education, culture and social well-being). The Flemish community therefore established a local elected council and executive to care for these intermediate level decision making & public service, being the Vlaamse Gemeenschapsraad and the Vlaamse gemeenschapscommissie (or 'VGC'). The VGC then, in its turn recognised local, municipal institutions to take care of the purely local public service in these community areas (called gemeenschapscentra in Dutch).

Striclty legally speaking, the Flemish community is not competent for individual people in Brussels, but for Flemish institutions as schools, theatres, libraries and museums. The reasons for this is that no formal subnationality was established in Brussels.

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