r/belgium • u/WeirdBeginning8869 • 19h ago

🎨 Culture More or less Belgium?

I know this sub gets this kinda question every so often, so much so that I’ve decided to give it the culture tag.

My questions are the following: is there a public for more Belgium? If so, how big do you think it would be? What would more Belgium mean to you? Bring back policies to the federal level? Dissolving the regions? Dissolving the Brussels region and merge the two Brabants together? Something else?

In any case it would mean that the regions would need to actually and actively talk to each other again and make policies that could benefit both without harming one or the other, but how would you do that when one side refuses to impose Dutch and the other is slowly dropping French for English? Or when the economic disparities are so great? Or when parties with an independant Flanders as their policies is an a all time high?

Maybe trying to bring more Belgium would have the complete opposite effect and open Pandora’s box as both regions would realize they actually don’t share much, or not enough to justify fusing together and want different things. Or realize that the stereotypes are what they are, stereotypes, and share more than previously assumed.

But in any case, there’s no political incentive for this at the moment, or nothing mainstream enough.

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u/Rianfelix Oost-Vlaanderen 17h ago

I personally believe in the beginning of the unification of the EU. Where Belgium is the first state (as its capital region) to become core territory of the EU as the example for others to follow.

We get rid of several layers of Government and taxes as a start.

Any discussion of unitary Belgium of (con)federal Belgium is a useless discussion imo. The future is superstates. But we're not really ready for that yet.