The bilingual central, bilingual region (i.e. constitutive member territory) of federal Belgium, comprising only the 19 municipalites of the capital metropolis Brussels; its constitutional status differs in several points from that of the far larger and more populous regions Flanders (northern, Dutch-speaking; Brussels is an enclave in it) and Walloonia (southern; francophone, with a small germanophone minority component)
The bilingual central, bilingual region (i.e. constitutive member territory) of federal Belgium, comprising only the 19 municipalities of the capital metropolis Brussels; its constitutional status differs in several points from that of the far larger and more populous regions Flanders (northern, Dutch-speaking; Brussels is an enclave in it) and Walloonia (southern; francophone, with a small germanophone minority component)
Op 9 december 1999 heeft het Rechtsprekend college van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest de volgende prejudiciële vraag gesteld:
On 9 December 1999, the Collège Juridictionnel de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale submitted the following question for a preliminary ruling:EurLex-2 EurLex-2
Krachtens de grondwet van de Belgische federatie behoren deze gemeenten tot het tweetalige Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest.
Pursuant to the Constitution of the Belgian Federation, those municipalities form part of the Brussels-Capital Region, which is bi-lingual.EurLex-2 EurLex-2