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“We have a democratic deficit,” says Pascal Smet. “If 20% of the people living in the city can’t vote, then you have a deficit.”
One has never had to look far for English-language theatre in Brussels – there are several amateur groups performing everything from Shakespeare to light opera.
Ten years ago, more than a third of the inhabitants of the Brussels region had a Belgian background, now it is a quarter, according to a report from Statbel, the Belgian statistics agency.
There is a unique relationship that can form between a family and the school that parents choose for their child’s education.
In our regular weekly podcast, we meet the people and visit the places that make Belgium special.
Virologist Steven Van Gucht has sounded a warning about the coming Christmas holidays and the amount of expats who will travel home to visit their families before returning to Belgium.
