Talk:Kraainem

the bilingual district of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde

• the so called district Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde is an electoral and judicial arrondissement and not an administrative division or administrative arrondissement (or district). It is a territorial circumscription without a proper administration.
• It is bilingual only in the sense that it comprises the officially bilingual Brussels-Capital Region and the officially unilingual Dutch-speaking administrative arrondissement Halle-Vilvoorde, the latter of witch Kraainem is a part. It is not an official "bilingual" language area. In the Belgian context of unilingual and bilingual language areas, the use of the word “bilingual” in this case is thus not neutral.

-Pediariki (talk) 12:30, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Mayor is acting Mayor

In Belgium, a mayor of burgomaster is not a by public vote elected politician, but has to be nominated by the regional governement. The non-nominated frenchspeaking Arnold d'Oreye de Lantremange is now acting mayor, due to his violation of the democratic language laws. -Pediariki (talk) 13:04, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Mayor is acting Mayor - Reaction

I find the preceding comment not neutral. One can think that the mayor is not nominated after a justice dicision. I would rather say: "The non-nominated frenchspeaking Arnold d'Oreye de Lantremange is now acting mayor, due to a political decision of the Flemish government as a reaction to the violation of the mayor of the language laws." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Harpagon a (talk • contribs) 11:46, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

You are right. It is a political decision, your text is OK. -Pediariki (talk) 23:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)