Second Walloon national congress
The Walloon National congress of 1946 was held with Charleroi May 11th and 12th in a city abundantly pavoized with the Walloon colors, under the impulse of Joseph Tirou, burgomaster of the City, one year later that the Walloon National congress of Liege of the October 20th and 21st 1945. The congressmen are as numerous as in Liege and propose a constitutional reform which makes of Belgium a Confédération with two States, the Flanders and the Wallonia and a federal Area (Brussels). The responsibilities allocate to the States are numerous and comprise the economy, teaching, the public health; agriculture, public works, broadcasting, the police force, gendarmerie and the maintenance of law and order. The confederal State keeps the currency, the worships, the statute of the press, the army, the railroads, the post office and the legal organization. Each confederated State can exert under certain conditions its right to the secession. But this provision, fought by Walloon Restoration, will not be taken again when the Walloon members of Parliament deposit a reform proposal of the Constitution to the Room in 1947.
At the end of the Congress, the participants estimate that its leaders must come into contact with the Flemish federalists what the Encyclopédie of the Walloon Movement (which devotes an important note to this event in its Volume I, pp. 344-345), regards as the origin of the Accord Schreurs-Roofer of 1952.
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