Itinera launched a first series of studies and debates on the pretext of “Mobilization for integration”. Laurent Hanseeuw (fellow Itinera Institute) concludes in his report that a quarter of the Belgian population has at least one parent born abroad. In the past ten years Belgium witnessed a net migration of about 500.000 people, or 4,5% of the population, by which Belgium scores higher than the United States and Canada. Itinera pleas for a policy mobilization that addresses all levels and is based on a firm consensus regarding strategy. 

Jozef De Witte (director CECGK) discussed the failure of the integration policy and pleas for a result-oriented integration policy, with a clear mission and concrete policy instruments. Rachida Azdouz, specialist in intercultural relations at University of Montreal, holds up a Canadian mirror: the sterile debate on the multicultural society is out of date.