Mr. Mahdi, who is also a member of Parliament, as well as Eva Demesmaeker (N-VA) and François De Smet (DéFI), questioned the resigning Minister of Mobility, Georges Gilkinet (Ecolo), about the incident which It happened recently on a train in Vilvoorde. SNCB and Gilkinet have contacted the Permanent Linguistic Control Commission to request a relaxation of language legislation in the railways.
In the complaint against a train controller who said “hello”, the CD&V is inflexible
The president of the CD&V had already described this situation as “extremely disrespectful” and reiterated this message in the hemicycle this Thursday. He immediately attacked French-speaking education, where it emerged last week that only a quarter of students still preferred Dutch as a second language. “What is important to me is that you concentrate on your task. You could have, during the last legislature, ensured that the trains ran on time or that, in the schools of French-speaking Belgium, children must learn Dutch. It’s a real shame that it’s not obligatory. And then, coming to teach us here is goodbye and thank you. This message was greeted with boos on the French-speaking benches.
