Word: wallonia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week there was open talk of abolishing the present system of government in favor of a loose federation between two self-governing states, one Flemish, the other Walloon. In Brussels, Socialist Deputies from Wallonia held a meeting without the Flemish Socialist members, issued a communiqué without precedent in Belgian political history. The communiqué noted that "government policies accentuate and accelerate the deterioration of the economic situation of Wallonia," and declared that "if these policies are not changed, the Walloon people will have no alternative but the revision of the unitary institutions of the country in order...