History of Belgium on matters of religion and, in recent decades, it has faced new divisions over differences of language and unequal economic development. This ongoing antagonism has caused far-reaching reforms since the 1970s, changing the formerly unitary Belgian state into a federal state, and repeated governmental crises. It is now divided into three regions: Flanders (Dutch-speaking) in the north, Wallonia (French-speaking) in the south, and bilingual Brussels in the middle. There is also a German-speaking population along the border with Germany that was granted to Prussia in the Congress of Vienna in 1815 but added to Belgium following the 1919 Treaty of
Judiciary of Belgium and Court of First Instance where it is unclear which court is competent for the respective case. Legal help can be obtained from a House of Justice ("Justitiehuis / Maison de justice"), of which there is one in each judicial arrondissement and 2 in the arrondissement of Brussels (a Dutch- and French-speaking one). The Constitutional Court ("Grondwettelijk Hof / Cour constitutionelle") is a special court mainly for conflicts between the federal level and regional level and was created as part of the federalisation of the country. The government of Belgium also has a lot of administrative courts, of which the