“Scandalous that Dutch is not compulsory at school”: the debate is on, Ecolo, PS and the PTB are ready to impose it

The French-speaking parties say they are in favor of multilingualism adapted to the reality on the ground.

Lhe federal level of power should be able to oblige Walloons to learn Dutch.” This statement comes to us from Sammy Mahdi. In an interview with Free and to The DHthe Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, also a candidate for the presidency of the CD&V, considers “scandalous” that learning Flemish is not compulsory in French-speaking education. A reality that endangers, according to him, the possibility of having “common ground” between the north and the south of the kingdom.

In the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (FWB), learning Dutch as a second language is actually compulsory only in Brussels, in the municipalities on the outskirts and in the municipalities close to the linguistic border.