Category Archives: Belgium

Many of Belgium’s non-EU immigrants are jobless – report

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

More than half of Belgium’s immigrants who came from outside the EU are not registered as working, a report by the country’s national bank says. Some 45.8 per cent were registered as working last year, apparently making it the lowest proportion of non-EU immigrants in employment in any EU state. Lack of qualifications was given as a key factor for the phenomenon but also discrimination among recruiters. EU immigrants had employment levels similar to those of Belgians. Immigrants overall made up about 14 per cent of the population, one of the highest levels in the EU, the report found. The main countries of origin were Morocco, France, the Netherlands and Italy. Describing … Continue reading →

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Belgian minister urges Pope to punish wayward bishop

Posted on April 16, 2011 by

(Reuters) – Belgium’s Justice Minister urged the Vatican on Friday to impose stiff punishment on a disgraced Catholic bishop who denies being a paedophile despite admitting to sexually abusing two of his own nephews. Stefaan de Clerck spoke out amid a media uproar after former Bruges Bishop Roger Vangheluwe defended himself on television by saying the abuse he committed was only “superficial.” Vangheluwe, who quit his post and went into hiding a year ago, after admitting to molesting a nephew, confessed in the interview Thursday that he had molested a second one. He left Belgium last week under Vatican orders to seek “spiritual and psychological treatment” abroad and Belgian media … Continue reading →

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