English should be Brussels’ official language, Flemish minister says

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Series Details 23.10.13
Publication Date 23/10/2013
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If Brussels aspires to be an international city, it should make English its official language, the Flemish minister for education Pascal Smet told EurActiv in October 2013.

The minister was speaking at the launch of the so-called Marnix Plan for a multilingual Brussels, a bottom-up project to promote language learning in the Belgian capital, giving priority to French, Dutch and English.
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