13 June 2022

Johan Leman

Climate activism and the progressive middle class

When I walked past the “Picnic the Bridge” and the activists at the Bourse yesterday in Brussels, I was struck by how strongly these actions are supported by a progressive […]

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11 June 2022

Johan Leman

Integration of mother tongue learning for Ukrainian refugee children?

In the 1980s, Integration of education in One’s Own Language and Culture was an educational model applied in Limburg, Ghent, Antwerp and, in its Foyer variant, also in Brussels, but […]

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9 June 2022

Johan Leman

Basic service from banks

“Banks are legally obliged to provide a basic service,” wrote a professional journalist who happened to be present while one of Foyer’s employees was accompanying a lady who wanted to […]

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6 June 2022

Johan Leman

Will the media finally become more critical for announcement politics?

It happens too often not to be noticed. And yet, the media continue to glorify the announcement policy to the detriment of the real evaluation of the policy pursued. If […]

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2 June 2022

Johan Leman

Lack of building on existing expertise in policy

For some time now, it has been noticeable that ministers and political parties attach more importance to emphasising where they make the difference with others than to building on existing […]

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30 May 2022

Johan Leman

Teacher and childcare shortage

On 5 May, I published an Opinion here about the predictable shortages in education. Add to that the predictable, ever-growing shortages in childcare. What do governments do? In both cases, […]

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20 May 2022

Johan Leman

Pocket parks in the Brussels Canal Zone!

“Brussels struggles with the heat. It can be three degrees hotter on average in the metropolis than in the countryside. But it is the people in Brussels with the lowest […]

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18 May 2022

Johan Leman

Brussels needs a sports policy with a vision

Brussels has an enormous potential of candidate (sub)top sportsmen and sportswomen. It could also become a city with the greatest possible variety of sports, which in itself could be very […]

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14 May 2022

Johan Leman

Emotion, politics and civil society

At the end of his 1962 book, The Gutenberg Galaxy, Marshall McLuhan predicted that in the very near future, new technologies would supplant the printed word and the culture that […]

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10 May 2022

Johan Leman

An identitarian, secular and polarising Flanders

An anthropological reading of some of the results of “De Stemming” (2022), as found in the media. In anthropology, there are two main criteria to describe ethnic self-awareness and to […]

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