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The Brussels municipality of Schaerbeek has taken an important step towards embracing multilingualism - by allowing residents to deal with the local administration in languages other than French o

Illustration picture shows the word English in the Oxford English dictionary. (BELGA PHOTO SISKA GREMMELPREZ)
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Belgium continues to improve in the world ranking of the best non-native English speakers with the latest edition of the EF English Proficiency Index placing it in sixth place.

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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.

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Brulingua, the language-learning platform in Brussels, is expanding its current offer of four languages to 24. The new lessons will become available on 19 October.

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Sonia Trabelsi works for the Belgian federal police as an analyst and geomatics engineer.

Jan Spooren, the governor of the province of Flemish Brabant, pictured during a plenary session of the Chamber at the Federal Parliament in Brussels. (BELGA PHOTO BENOIT DOPPAGNE)
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The governor of the province of Flemish Brabant, Jan Spooren, has cancelled the municipal council of Kraainem’s project to create a linguistic register.

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The Walloon government will mobilise €10 billion to boost the economy, one of the key measures of which will be to promote the learning of Dutch.

Illustration picture shows a baby playing with a ball Friday 27 March 2020 in Brussels. (BELGA PHOTO LAURIE DIEFFEMBACQ)
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When two Dutch-speaking parents wanted to register their son with the Brussels authorities last week, the civil registry official thought that the name they wanted to give their child – Hannes – w

Sven Gatz, Brussels Minister of Finance, Budget, Civil Service and Multilingualism, at a school in Anderlecht, Brussels. Getz is leading a push to centralise all information on multilingualism in the capital (BELGA PHOTO)
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According to a new study on multilingualism, Brussels has a truly diverse range of multilingual initiatives, but what is missing is an online platform that centralises all the information.

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