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French Community
Sign in to saveAlso known as Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Communauté française, Franse Gemeenschap, Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles, Federation Wallonia-Brussels, FWB
one of the three official communities in Belgium
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The French Community of Belgium, also referred to as the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, is an active government entity and funder located in Brussels, Belgium. Established in 1980, the institution covers an area of 16151. It operates under the official name French Community of Belgium and maintains a presence on the internet through several official websites.
The organization is categorized in the Commons as the "French Community of Belgium" and has a dedicated institution page for the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles. Its official web presence includes portals for general information and education. The entity is recognized as an active institution within the country of Belgium.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Country
- Belgium
- Regions
- Wallonia , Brussels
- Capital
- City of Brussels
- Executive
- Government of the French Community
- Governing parties 2024 2029
- MR and Les Engagés
- Minister president
- Élisabeth Degryse (Les Engagés)
- Legislature
- Parliament of the French Community
- Speaker
- Benoît Dispa (Les Engagés)
- Total
- ~4,500,000
- Celebration day
- 27 September
- Language
- French
- Website
- www .cfwb .be
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Funder, Government
- Founded
- 1980
- Location
- Brussels, Belgium
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.468013.8 · ISNI 0000 0004 0576 6080
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- community of Belgium
- Country
- Belgium
- Located in
- Belgium
- Capital
- Brussels
- Official language
- French
- Area
- 16151
- Head of government
- Pierre-Yves Jeholet
- Legislature
- Parliament of the French Community
- Official website
- enseignement.be
- Image
- Communauté française in Belgium.svg
- Flag
- Flag of Wallonia
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- different from
- French Community
- Commons category
- French Community of Belgium
- topic's main category
- Category:French Community of Belgium
- inception
- 1980-00-00
- Commons Institution page
- Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
- native label
- Communauté française de Belgique
- executive body
- Government of the French Community
- office held by head of government
- Minister-President of the French Community
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
In Belgium, the French Community (French: Communauté française (de Belgique), pronounced [kɔmynote fʁɑ̃sɛːz də bɛlʒik], CFB) refers to one of the three constituent constitutional linguistic communities. Since 2011, the French minority has used the name Wallonia-Brussels Federation (French: Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, pronounced [fedeʁɑsjɔ̃ walɔni bʁysɛl], FWB), which is controversial because its name in the Belgian Constitution has not changed and because it is seen as a political statement. The name "French Community" refers to the French language and not to France. As such, the French minority of Belgium is sometimes rendered in English as "the French-speaking Community of Belgium" for clarity, in analogy to the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
The Community has its own parliament, government, and administration. It and its predecessor entity have used the flag of Wallonia since 1975.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “French Community” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.