In Wallonia, therefore, more than half of citizens aged 25 to 64 with a nationality from outside the EU-27 are neither working nor looking for work. But Flanders also scores worse in terms of inactivity for people with a non-EU-27 nationality than the product of all European countries, where that percentage is 29 percent.

Belgium has approximately 1,315,000 million active people between the ages of 25 and 64. So 123,000 of them have a nationality from outside the EU-27. More than four in ten (42.6 percent) of inactive people with a non-European nationality do not have a secondary education diploma. More than 20 percent of the group is currently also not receiving any training.

These figures present our country with important policy challenges, concludes labor economist Stijn Baert. “A clinging policy is urgently needed,” it sounds. “It is crucial that employers, employees and policymakers stop pointing at each other, but each take their responsibility. Employers Discrimination and Harassment. But the existence of unequal treatment is no reason not to give your best in school or when looking for work.”