12 June 2020

Johan Leman

Migrations into Europe: important facts May 2020

May 2.  Malta refuses to let 57 migrants go ashore. First, it wants an EU-deal arranging the resettlement of those 57 migrants among the member states. Malta also points to […]

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31 January 2020

Johan Leman

Orbán and Auschwitz

On 27 January, Viktor Orbán was in Auschwitz for a ceremony of remembrance, 75 years after the concentration camp was liberated. Just a day later, Hungarian police fired three warning […]

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28 January 2020

Johan Leman

Danish religious leaders meet for roundtable discussion

A group of Danish religious leaders has held a roundtable discussion with Johan Leman. The representatives of Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities asked our president about the stigma which is […]

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27 January 2020

Johan Leman

Bring back children of jihadis, or pay the price

Sorry, but it really was predictable. Sooner or later, it had to happen: a court ruling and a fine. The situation was untenable. You cannot allow children – who, incidentally, […]

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2 January 2020

Johan Leman

284,000 Syrians displaced

On 19 December the Assad-regime and Russia launched several attacks on the Idlib de-escalation zone. On 2 January a counter-attack by the rebels followed. As a consequence of those events […]

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Johan Leman is a social and cultural anthropologist and president of Foyer VZW since 2003, where he was director from 1981 to 1989. He is an expert on integration policy and the fight against racism. From 1989 to 1993 he was chief of cabinet of the Royal Commissioner for Migrant Policy and from 1993 to 2003 he was director of the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism.

In this blog, he gives his opinion and views on current events in and around Molenbeek.