Belgium ‘placed on democracy watch list’ for banning French-speaking mayors from office

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The COE has demanded that the mayors be immediately appointed and called for a review of Belgium’s linguistic laws that have been used by Flemish nationalists to ban the use of the French language in municipalities around Brussels, home to the EU.

Tags: Linguistic nationalism

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Belgium ‘placed on democracy watch list’ for banning French-speaking mayors from office

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