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| The country remains RELAXED even without the Central Government, Here's Belgium! |
The country remains RELAXED even without the Central Government, Here's Belgium!
What would it be like if a country went without a government? Perhaps we can learn from the country of Belgium, this country holds the record as the country without the longest central government in the world which was about 589 days between 2010 and 2011.
And this condition without a belgian government has happened again in 2019. interestingly people's lives in belgium are proceeding as usual. No riots There were no mass demonstrations of supporters or other conflicts. Government offices and citizen services also remained functioning.
The Kingdom of Belgium, is a sovereign state located in the region of western Europe. Belgium is the 5th smallest country in the country and is one of the smallest countries in the world, the territory of this country covers an area of 30,689 square kilometers, and If we try to compare it with the area of the area in Indonesia, the area of this country is the size of the area of asmat regency in the province of Papua, which has an area of about 31,983 km².
Belgium is located in the northwestern part of the european continent. The country borders several other European countries in the region, such as with the Netherlands in the north, with Germany in the east, luxemburg in the southeast, and with france in the south and southwest.
Belgium is a federal empire, with 3 autonomous regions namely the flanders or flanders region which is also called the flemish region, because this area is occupied by a dutch-speaking flemish community. The 2nd region is the french-speaking wallonia region.
And the 3rd region is the capital region of Brussels which is located in the central part of the country and is part of the french community of Belgium and the flemish community. Belgium has a city in the city of Brussels , the city of Brussels is also the largest city in the country of Belgium.
The city has become a major center of international politics and is home to many international organizations According to population data Belgium is the 6th most populous country in europe, with a population of 11,492,641 inhabitants, the country's population density is 376 inhabitants per square kilometer.
According to the data, as of January 1, 2021, about 67.3% of the Belgian population is of Belgian ethnicity, while about 32.7% are immigrants or foreign nationalities.
Officially belgium recognizes 3 religions, namely Christianity, islam and judaism(Jews). Nevertheless the country's constitution provides freedom of religion for its inhabitants and the government in general respects this right in practice.
Traditionally, roman catholicism is the majority religion in belgium especially in the flemish region, from a 2019 Survey it states, that about 60% of the belgian population is adherents of Christianity, with the majority being roman catholics.
While about 31% of the population declared no religion or atheist, and about 7% were adherents of the islamic religion, with the remaining 2% being adherents of other religions. Belgium has 3 official languages, namely Dutch, French and German.
It is estimated that 59% of the belgian population are native speakers of dutch or what is often referred to as flemish, and 40% of the country's population speaks French, while the belgian population who speak German is only 1% of the total population.
Belgium is a country with a constitutional monarchical parliamentary federal system. Under the provisions of the belgian constitution, national executive power is held by the king and the prime minister and his council of ministers, while legislative power is divided by the king, a bicameral parliament consisting of a representative chamber and a senate, as well as community and regional councils.
In practice, the role of the monarch as head of state is limited to representative and official functions, for which royal acts must be signed by ministers, who in turn are responsible for them to parliament.
And the current king of belgium is King philippe, he officially succeeded his father after his father abdicated the throne for health reasons on 21 july 2013. Meanwhile, the post of prime minister in Belgium is currently held by alexander de croo who has been in office since october 2020.
Belgium is a developed country, with a high-income economy. The country's economy is very oriented towards the service and service sector, besides that the belgian economy is also closely related to europe. as belgium is one of the founding countries of the european union and a member of a number of other international economic organizations, such as the belgian-luxembourg economic union and the benelux economic union.
And Historically, belgium was one of the first European countries to experience an industrial revolution at the beginning of the 19th century, which developed until the middle of the 20th century and made it one of the three most developed countries in the world between 1830 and 1910.
Belgian history The history of belgium refers to the history before the founding of a modern country with that name in 1830. The history of the country is closely related to the history of its neighboring countries, namely the Netherlands, Germany, France, and Luxembourg.
A little backwards, the earliest documented history for this region was the conquest of the gaulish region or western Europe carried out by the roman empire around the 1st century BC.
After the conquest, the area was later divided into several regions as part of the roman province.
After the collapse of the roman empire, in the 5th century AD this territory came under the rule of the franks, who founded the merovingian kingdom. In the 8th century AD, the carolingian dynasty succeeded merovingia as the ruler of the frank nation.
During those middle ages, the region was divided into several small feudal states such as the duchy of brabant, the county of Flanders, the principality of liege, and luxembourg. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the flemish district became one of the richest areas in europe as the fabric industry and trade flourished in the region.
But this prosperity played a role in the conflict that occurred between the flemish and the king of france. In the 15th century, the burgundian dukes in france managed to take over flanders, and from there they began to unite most of the territories referred to as low states or beneluxes, and later by the Burgundian dynasty these territories were referred to as burgundian netherlands.
The states later gained autonomy under the habsburg dynasty in the 16th century and were subsequently named as 17 provinces or belgica regia.
After the Burgundian regime, these territories had ties to the Austrian habsburg dynasty and later with the Spanish. The 16th century, precisely in 1568, was triggered by the policies of the Spanish government that tried to abolish protestantism.
Caused a split between the 17 provinces, where the northern part of the belgica regia consisting of 7 provinces formed a provincial union or what is often referred to as the Dutch republic.
While the southern part consisting of 10 provinces forms the southern Netherlands which is also called the Catholic Netherlands. This southern Netherlands consists of most of the territory of modern Belgium and Luxembourg, and some parts of the territory of the Netherlands and Germany.
The Spanish government's policy also triggered an 80-year war or war of independence that occurred until 1648. Which eventually separated the dutch republic and the southern netherlands.
The 17th century period was a period of some constantly protracted conflicts during the 17th to 18th centuries that also involved the French in it.
These included the franco-dutch war of 1672, the nine-year war from 1688 to 1697, the war of the Spanish succession of 1701, and part of the war of the austrian succession in 1740. Then in 1794, after the end of the french revolutionary war, the territory of the lower states was annexed by the first french republic it marked the end of austrian rule as the heir to the habsburgs in the region.
After napoleon's defeat in the waterloo war of 1815. Britain along with austria, prussia and russia as the winning party to the war, in the congress vienna, agreed to reunite the former territories of 17 provinces or low states, thus creating a union of the kingdom of the netherlands The purpose of the unification of this territory is, the kingdom of the netherlands will serve as a buffer state or buffer state against the invasion of france in the future.
Ideological differences between the catholic-majority southern provinces, and the protestant-majority northern provinces, eventually led to divisions within the kingdom.
The peak occurred in August 1830, when riots began to spread in cities in the southern provinces of the kingdom. This event became known as the belgian revolution, because after the conflict, it led to the separation of the southern provinces from the netherlands and the formation of the belgian state.
Since the appointment of leopold I as king on 21 July 1831, belgium has become a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy.
The country remains RELAXED even without the Central Government, Here's Belgium!