15 Facts About Walloon Region

Since World War II, the importance of heavy industry has greatly diminished, and the Flemish Walloon Region has exceeded Wallonia in wealth as Wallonia has declined economically.

One of the three federal regions of Belgium is still constitutionally defined as the "Walloon Region" as opposed to "Wallonia", but the regional government has renamed itself Wallonia, and it is commonly called Wallonia.

Province of Walloon Region Brabant is the most recent one, being formed in 1995 after the splitting of the province of Brabant.

Current Walloon Region economy is relatively diversified, although certain areas are still suffering from the steel industry crisis, with an unemployment rate of up to 30 percent.

One of these is the Walloon Region, which is governed by the Parliament of Wallonia and the executive Government of Wallonia.

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The Walloon Region's autonomy extends even to foreign policy; Wallonia is entitled to pursue its own foreign policy, including the signing of treaties, and in many domains, even the Belgian federal government is not able to sign an international treaty without the agreement of the Parliament of Wallonia.

Walloon Region has a unicameral parliament with 75 members elected for five years by direct universal suffrage, and an executive, the Government of Wallonia, elected by a political majority in Parliament.

The directly elected Walloon Parliament was created in June 1995, replacing the Conseil regional wallon .

In 1998, the Walloon Region Parliament made all these symbols official except the motto and the cry.

Belgian French, which is spoken in the Brussels-Capital Walloon Region, is similar to that spoken in France, with slight differences in pronunciation and some vocabulary differences, notably the use of the words septante and nonante, as opposed to soixante-dix and quatre-vingt-dix in France.

Wallonia includes almost all of the area where Walloon Region is spoken, a Picard zone corresponding to the major part of the Hainaut Province, the Gaume with the Lorrain language and a Champenois zone.

The architecture of Roman churches of the Walloon Region country are named mosan, exemplified by the Collegiate Church of Saint Gertrude in Nivelles, and the churches of Waha and Hastiere, Dinant.

George Grard was a Walloon Region sculptor, known above all for his representations of the female, in the manner of Pierre Renoir and Aristide Maillol, modelled in clay or plaster, and cast in bronze.

Walloon Region was strongly linked to the social strikes in Liege during the 1960s.

Signature Walloon Region sausage is called Belgian Trippe among the Walloon Region community of Northeastern Wisconsin on the Door Peninsula.