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Changes to the calendar for French-speaking schools come into effect on 29 August. The last Monday in August now becomes the first day of the new school year, reports Bruzz.
Compared to 2000, twice as many French people were recorded as living in the Brussels region last year with the majority being young and female, Bruzz reports.
Some 40 of the 500 richest French people are storing €20 billion worth of assets in Belgium through stakes in companies headquartered in the country, reports L’Echo and De Tijd.
French-speaking schools in Wallonia and Brussels will have a new school calendar following reforms by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, although opponents are likely to request for a postponement
Belgium’s Council of State has annulled a requirement for French-speakers living in the Dutch-speaking outskirts of Brussels to reapply each year to receive administrative documents in French.
Brussels’ Steiner-Waldorf primary school École EOS is expanding to open a new secondary school in September.
Language-wise, there’s a yawning gap between my pre-moving-to-Brussels fantasy and the awkward, stuttering reality.
Nearly half of all kids living in Brussels grow up in a multilingual family, according to research carried out by the ULB sociology department.
You can conjugate in French, you can get your tongue around most Dutch pronunciations, you might even have a smattering of German.
