The transformation of demographic structures and the geography of Europeans in Brussels between 2000 and 2018

• Main Author: Charlotte Casier
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles 2019-09-01
• Series: Brussels Studies
• Subjects: population; immigration; European Union; international institutions; demographic boom
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/brussels/2932

In 2018, European Union nationals represented 275 000 individuals in the Brussels-Capital Region, i.e. 23 % of the population domiciled there. This is the result of the continuous increase in the number of people in this group between 2000 and 2018, linked to significant immigration from the new member states, the continued growth in the number of French nationals and the resumption of emigration from southern Europe from 2008 onwards. In geographical terms, the presence of Europeans was strengthened between 2000 and 2015 in the south-east of the inner urban ring, although at the same time, the significant increase in the number of Polish, Romanian and Bulgarian nationals has contributed to increasing the European presence in certain neighbourhoods in the western part of Brussels.