THE POINT OF NO RETURN: Brussels’ Native Population Nearly Vanishes

Belgium’s demographic reality is no longer a warning — it is a fact.
In Brussels today, 72.9% of children and teenagers have a non-EU migration background, while just 10.5% are native Belgians of Belgian origin. This is not “diversity.” It is population replacement, measurable and irreversible.

The Europe people imagine — the Europe of Napoleon, Chartres, Bach, Rembrandt, Dante, Goethe, the Enlightenment, the cathedrals, the nation-states, the hard-won liberties — exists now largely in textbooks and museums.

A civilization that shaped the modern world has been dissolved by policy, denial, and cowardice. What took centuries to build is being erased in a generation.

Europe, as it was known, is not evolving. It is vanishing.

Belgium’s ‘population replacement’: 72.9% of children and teens in Brussels have a non-EU migration background, only 10.5% are Belgians of Belgian origin

“This supports the obvious assertion that the native European population is being replaced,” writes Belgian MP Filip Dewinter

By: Remix, December 23, 2025 15:38

The demographic changes across Europe are immense, with ethnic, indigenous Europeans rapidly being replaced. As Remix News has noted, this is apparent in cities like Vienna, Austria, but perhaps some of the most stark developments are taking place in Brussels, Belgium.

The data there shows that in Brussels, 72.9 percent of children and youth aged 0-17 have a migration background from outside the European Union or were born outside the EU, according to StatBel, the official government statistic organization.

Remarkably, only 10.56 percent in this age group are Belgians of exclusively Belgian origin.

In response, Belgian MP Filip Dewinter has referred to “population replacement,” which he argues is not a “conspiracy,” but clearly demonstrated by the data.

Many critics have stated that Brussels had such a high percentage of foreign youths because citizens from other EU nations had moved to the capital. However, the data shows that nearly all the youth in the capital city now belong to non-EU nations.

Overall in Belgium, there are remarkable differences between the regions. StatBel notes, “At the Belgian level, approximately two-thirds of the population was Belgian of Belgian origin as of Jan. 1, 2025. This varies from 22.0 percent in the Brussels-Capital Region to 63.6 percent in the Walloon Region, and 71.9 percent in the Flemish Region.”

In Belgium as a whole, 64 percent are of Belgian origin, 22.1 percent are Belgian of foreign origin, and 13.8 percent are foreigners with no Belgian citizenship.

In practice, this means that as of Jan. 1, 2025, the “Belgian population numbered in absolute figures 7,571,338 Belgians of Belgian origin, 2,619,289 Belgians of foreign origin and 1,634,924 non-Belgians,” according to BelStat.

Belgium clearly indicates that there are many Belgians of “foreign origin” in Brussels overall as well, amounting to 40.8 percent in the Brussels-Capital Region.

That means in Brussels, 78 percent of the population is of non-Belgian origin.

Family reunification is driving much of the immigration, and remains the largest channel of growth.

Since 2018, the annual average has fluctuated around 56,000 new family reunifications. The sole dip was seen in 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. The peak was in 2024, with 59,873 family reunifications.

Great Replacement
In a new column in Liberium, Filip Dewinter, a leading member of the right-wing Flemish nationalist party Vlaams Belang and currently Belgium’s longest-serving member of parliament, referred to a new 33-page Trump administration memo related to Europe. Among other issues, the memo cited that Europe’s demographics are changing and that this development could represent a threat to the United States. Dewinter wrote this:

Isn’t Trump simply right when he asserts that Europe is in decline, weakly led, and losing its identity, social cohesion, cultural identity, and ethnic homogeneity due to immigration, wokeism, and Islamization? In the 33-page memo—of which, incidentally, only two pages are about Europe—the Trump administration refers to ‘migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife.’

This supports the obvious assertion that the native European population is being replaced. By linking the immigration invasion to “cratering birthdates” and “the loss of national identities and self-confidence,” Trump fully endorses the population replacement analysis, and the concept of “population replacement” has evolved from “conspiracy theory” to American government policy.

Last year, Belgian MEP Tom Vandendriessche was reprimanded by European Parliament President Roberta Metsola for concluding that EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson’s call for more migration to combat Europe’s aging workforce amounts to “deliberate, organized repopulation.”

The lawmaker for the Flemish nationalist Vlaams Belang party, which sits with the Identity & Democracy group in the European Parliament, commented on the remarks by Johansson, the EU’s commissioner for home affairs, who said last month that the European Union needs at least 1 million migrants every year to replenish its depleting labor force and called for the bloc to further “invest in legal channels for regular migration.”

“These are Commissioner Johansson’s literal words: ‘We need migration,’” Vandendriessche said of the comments on Jan. 16.

“She wants to bring an additional 1 million migrants to Europe, on top of the many millions we already have.

“In doing so, she wants to combat the aging of Europe’s shrinking population. So she literally wants non-European peoples to replace shrinking European peoples.

“That is, by definition, replacement migration, a synonym for repopulation,” the Belgian MEP added.