Shame is served. And to serve it is Bernard ClerfaytBelgian Minister for Employment and Training, who interviewed on the radio said that the low employment rate of women in the Brussels region is due to the fact that “they follow a Mediterranean family model, in which the man works and the women stay at home to take care of their children, whether they are of Italian, Moroccan or Turkish origin”.
An absolute delirium: if women work little it is… fault of the Italian mentality. Words that obviously raised a fuss against Clerfayt, minister of the French-speaking Democratic Front, a left-liberal party, and since 2001 mayor of Schaerbeek, a Brussels municipality with a very high concentration of immigrants.
And among those who wanted to respond to the Belgian, here is also Matthew Salvini, leader of the League and deputy premier, who hits Clerfayat very hard. All on Twitter, where he relaunches a photo of the minister with his words at the bottom. And the Minister of Infrastructure, in his own hand, adds: “Don’t women work? It’s the fault of the Mediterranean model of Italians and North Africans. Belgian minister of a left-wing majority: apologize and resign, ignorant”. Salvini straight to the point…