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The Parliament of Wallonia (French: Parlement de Wallonie, pronounced [paʁləmɑ̃ də walɔni]), or the Walloon Parliament (Parlement wallon, [paʁləmɑ̃ walɔ̃]) in the decrees, is the legislative body of Wallonia, one of the three self-governing regions of Belgium (the other two being Flanders and the Brussels-Capital Region).
The Meuse, shown here at Namur, is one of Belgium's main water resources.The river provides 30% of Brussel's water supply. Belgium's water resources are distributed among five river basins, the two main ones being the Meuse and the Scheldt that both take their source in France and flow into the sea in the Netherlands.
The plan, described as a "Labour Plan", was one of the foremost examples of De Man's doctrine of "Planisme" (state planning). [ citation needed ] The policy was aimed at "instilling a mixed economic system" by the creation of "a nationalized sector covering the organization of credit and the main industries which have already in reality been ...
The Regional Investment Company of Wallonia (French: Société Régionale d'Investissement de Wallonie or SRIW) was founded by the Walloon Region in 1979 to provide capital to the Walloon industry. The purpose of the SRIW, based in Liège, is to invest in the equity of unlisted companies (private equity).
Steelmaking along the Meuse at Ougrée, near Liège. The sillon industriel was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe, [2] experiencing its first industrialisation wave from 1800 to 1820. [3]
The Élysette in Namur is the office building of the Walloon Minister-President. The Walloon Government (French: Gouvernement wallon, pronounced [ɡuvɛʁnəmɑ̃ walɔ̃]) or Government of Wallonia (Gouvernement de Wallonie, [-də walɔni]) is the executive branch of Wallonia, and it is part of one of the six main governments of Belgium.
Wallonia (/ w ɒ ˈ l oʊ n i ə / wol-OH-nee-ə; French: Wallonie ⓘ; Walloon: Waloneye or Walonreye), [a] officially the Walloon Region (French: Région wallonne [ʁeʒjɔ̃ walɔn]; Walloon: Redjon walone), [b] is one of the three regions of Belgium—along with Flanders and Brussels. [5]
The Marshall Plan helped Belgium to recover quickly. In the 1950s and 1960s, mass tourism gradually developed, diminishing Spa's reliance on the elite as customers. These were decades of social tourism as well, with an increasingly large number of Flemish and Dutch customers, while the Walloons went en masse to the Belgian coast in Flanders ...