Dated events associated with this case. Each event is a shared record: the same event appears identically wherever it is relevant.
· Constitutional change
A constitutional revision declared Belgium a federal state composed of Communities and Regions, including the Flemish Region and Community.
Significance here: Established the federal constitutional framework within which Flanders now exercises regional and community self-government.
· Other
A 541-day deadlock between Flemish and francophone parties over further state reform set a world record for the longest period without an elected government in peacetime.
Significance here: Exposed the depth of the Flemish–Walloon political divide and directly preceded the sixth state reform.
· Constitutional change
Transferred roughly €20 billion a year in competences from the federal level to the regions and communities, the largest devolution since 1993.
Significance here: The most substantial extension of Flemish regional competence since the 1993 federalisation.
· Other
Bart De Wever, an N-VA founder, became the first Flemish nationalist Prime Minister of Belgium at the head of a five-party "Arizona coalition".
Significance here: Marked N-VA's first leadership of a federal Belgian government, a party whose founding aim was Flemish independence.
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