比利时主要由两大民族组成,即北部地区讲荷兰语的弗拉芒族,南部地区讲法语的瓦隆族,在东南部还有极少数讲德语的日耳曼族。长期以来,经济实力雄厚的瓦隆族一直在比利时占据统治地位,并把法语定为官方语言。60年代后弗拉芒地区经济实力超过瓦隆地区,并为争取提高民族地位与瓦隆族展开激烈斗争,最后形成三种语言、四个地区(讲荷语的弗拉芒地区、讲法语的瓦隆地区、讲德语的富洪地区和弗拉芒和瓦隆两族混居的首都布鲁塞尔区)相互争执的局面,一些全国性的传统政党也各自一分为二。为调和各方矛盾,政府将全国分为四 Belgium is dominated by two major ethnic groups, namely, the Flemish Dutch speaking population in the north, the Wallonian speaking French in the south, and the very few Germanic Germans in the southeast. For a long time, the economically powerful Wallonians have been dominant in Belgium and have made French the official language. After the 1960s, the Flemish region surpassed the Wallonia economic power and fought a fierce battle against the Wallonia in an effort to raise its national status. Finally, three languages ​​were formed, and four regions (Flemish speaking Dutch and French-speaking The Wallonia region, the Hungarian-speaking region and the Flemish and Wallonia, the capital of the two Wallis-mixed communities.) Some national traditional parties are also divided into two groups. To reconcile the contradictions of all parties, the government divides the country into four