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Bill on student migration: fraud gate stays open, N-VA votes against it

24 June 2021

Student visas must strengthen our universities by attracting the “best and brightest”. In practice, the opposite is still too often the case. Too many foreign students do not have the basic competences to graduate successfully and they disappear into illegality. The problematic transposition of a …

The N-VA does not support the European Climate Law

24 June 2021

The European N-VA group will not approve the European Climate Law that is before us today. “A commitment is being made without knowing the impact on the Member States and the federal states,” MEP Johan Van Overtveldt says. “It is good that the EU is leading the way for a sustainable and innovative …

N-VA MPs are moderately satisfied with the update of Belgium’s Strategic Vision for Defence: “There could have been more to it”

22 June 2021

The strategic committee, a team of experts appointed by Federal Defence Minister Ludivine Dedonder to update the Strategic Vision, has submitted its recommendations to the Parliamentary Defence Committee. N-VA MPs Theo Francken, Peter Buysrogge and Darya Safai see possibilities in the text. “This …

“Bilingual services in Brussels municipalities must improve”

21 June 2021

Since 2015, only five of the 19 Brussels municipalities have taken up the offer of the Huis van het Nederlands to improve the bilingualism of their staff. Flemish MP Annabel Tavernier, who requested the figures from the Flemish minister for Brussels Benjamin Dalle (CD&V), thinks that number is too …

N-VA proposal for minimum knowledge of Dutch or French among social tenants rejected by Brussels majority

18 June 2021

The coronavirus crisis has clearly revealed that many people living in Brussels do not speak Dutch or French and are therefore very difficult to reach. It is therefore our task to encourage and help these people to master at least one of the official languages of Brussels. That is why the Brussels …

Pandora’s box has been opened: neutrality is now under threat in Brussels

17 June 2021

The Brussels government decided today not to appeal against the STIB-MIVB’s conviction for discrimination after a woman was refused employment because she was wearing a headscarf. “It is incomprehensible how lightly the Brussels government treats the neutrality of our government. One would expect …

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