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![[Voeren/Fourons]](../images/b/be-vlivo.gif)
by Christophe Janssen
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The flag shall be adopted by the new Municipal Council of Voeren on 1 January 2001.
Christophe Janssen, 25 October 2000
All the Flemish communes are obliged since the decrees of the 28th
January 1977 and 21st December 1994 to have a coat of arms and a
flag. These emblems are adopted by the authorities of the communes,
approved by the Flemish Heraldic Council and officially recognized by
the concerned Minister. If the flag or a coat of arms of a commune
wasn't approved by the Flemish Heraldic Council, this last could
propose and fix officially the flag or the coat of arms of that
commune. That has already happened with the case of the commune of
Voeren (Fourons) which didn't want the coat of arms / flag proposed
by the Flemish Heraldic Council. This has led to the State Court
which decided that this commune should have the coat of arms / flag
proposed by the Flemish Heraldic Council, that is:
"quartered: 1 and 4, or a lion Sable langued and armed Gules
(Flanders); 2 and 3, Argent a lion Gules
langued, armed and crowned Or (Limburg)".
Pascal Vagnat, 10 February 2000
![[Action Fouronnaise]](../images/b/be}af.gif)
by Filip van Laenen
The former Municipal Council of Fourons refused to adopt arms and
flag, although the Flemish legislation imposed it. Due to this lack
of adoption, the Flemish Heraldic Council imposed a quartered flag
with the Flemish and Limburgian lions. This was unacceptable for the
French-speakers of Fourons, who never stopped claiming to join the
province of Liège. They were
rattached to Limburg for obscure questions of delimitations and
compensations when the linguistical border was defined. The Municipal
Council went to the court for the flag question but lost the
case.
The municipal council refused to use the quartered flag (and could be
fined for this) but used a banner of arms, which is also the flag of
the local political party Action Fouronnaise. The arms bear
the flight of steps of Liège and eleven alternating red and
yellow stripes, which (probably) stand for the eleven communes that
were merged to form Fourons (plurial since they were more than one
Fouron among them) / Voeren.
The flag was (probably) not official even if adopted by the Municipal
Council, because the Flemish Heraldic Council could not have accepted
such a revendicative design.
Pascal Vagnat, 10 May 1999 &10 February 2000
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