Abstract
Belgium has long been one of the most Europhile members of the European Union (EU). The current attachment of Belgium to the EU may seem a paradox: when it joined the European Economic Community, Belgium was still a unitary state. Since 1993 it has been a federal state, made up of two types of regions: three communities (the Flemish Community, the French Community, and the German-speaking Community) and three regions (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels; for a schematic overview of the Belgian federal system, see Swenden and Jans 2006). Can an increasingly decentralized agenda be successfully combined with an increasingly supranational one, or is there a point where the objectives of those who seek to regionalize powers clash with the policies of the EU?
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