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More than 2,000 recruitments or promotions of civil servants in Brussels' municipalities and social welfare organisation CPAS last year were in breach of the region's language laws, according to a
The Brussels suburb of Rhode-Saint-Genèse has been required by law to withdraw its official logo after accusations of circumventing the legislation on the use of languages.
The number of Brussels police officers who are proficient in Dutch has dropped below half, according to figures requested from Vlaams Belang party leader Barbara Pas.
A planned measure to make taxi drivers who serve Brussels Airport pass a Dutch-language test has drawn criticism from the sector.
More than 50 Dutch-speaking schools in the Brussels region have signed up to a multilingualism project to provide educational support in French, English or in other languages spoken by pupils at h
Borrowing a book from a Dutch-language library in Brussels has just become easier - and completely free.
Flemish broadcaster VRT has come under fire for its use of a more commonly spoken form of the Dutch language, which some say is in violation of language laws that call for news broadcasts to be do
Members of the N-VA party are calling for legislation that would require those who stand trial for breaking a law in a Dutch-speaking neighbourhood to do so in the Dutch language.
The education minister for the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, Caroline Désir, has indicated that she wants Dutch or German language classes to be compulsory for French-speaking students beginning i
