Princess Elisabeth has completed first year of master’s degree but Trump administration’s crackdown may jeopardise studies
Princess Elisabeth, the 23-year-old future queen of Belgium, has just completed her first year at Harvard University but the ban imposed by Donald Trump’s administration on foreign students studying there could jeopardise her continued attendance.
The US president’s administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enrol international students on Thursday, and is forcing current foreign students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status in the US, while also threatening to expand the crackdown to other colleges.
“Princess Elisabeth has just completed her first year. The impact of [the Trump administration’s] decision will only become clearer in the coming days/weeks. We are currently investigating the situation,” said a spokesperson for the Belgian royal palace, Lore Vandoorne.
Hey, don’t put any random rich-ish person from Europe into the same US billionaire basket
“Rich-ish?” She’s the future queen of belgium. Those people have more power than money can buy
You’re either overestimating the Belgium crown’s power or underestimating the power of money. Also: “Belgium’s monarchy has topped the list as Europe’s poorest royal family, with the Belgian monarch King Philippe estimated to have a fortune of about €12.4 million”
Ah ah ouais le pauvre ti’chou. Seulement 12 millions.
Un vrai zom du peuple dit donc. Moi Je vais devoir payer 40000 balles d’impots le mois prochain et j’ai pas le premier sous.
Never said she was poor, just not “more power than money can buy”.
Also, you’re paying more in taxes than many people’s yearly gross income so maybe you’re not so poor yourself so… Yeah…
Not really. I’m freelancer. And unlike the other idiots I don’t get a 50 grands society car tax free.
I don’t have anything against paying taxes per se. Corruption is rampant, elitism is still a huge problem, I don’t want to pay for royalties, f35s and crony politicians. Meanwhile I can’t see my nurse of a mum because they’re understaffed
What do you mean not really? Minimum wage in most countries is below 25k/year. If you’re playing 40k in taxes, it means you’re earning a lot more than that. Median is somewhere around 40-50k, so you’re earning more than that as well. You have no idea how privileged you are if you think you have it bad.
How much of an hypocrit do you have to be to accuse me of being privileged while sImping for the king lmao
All I said was that she doesn’t have more power than money can buy. Because money can literally make you the president of the USA. Unless you think that’s somehow less than the princess of Belgium than I’ve literally never heard of until today. But if that’s simping, ok. You do you.
I am lucky. Netto I make twice the median income.
I still don’t have 12 millions, idiot
Ad hominem cause you have no arguments, nice. So you get called out for making stuff up about people and your defense was “WAH, I have to pay 40k taxes, why should others be filthy rich when I’m only rich?!”
And I’m the idiot? Ok.
You’re definitely earning more than me, but I’m also a freelancer. So much of at least Czech and Polish tax code is set up to make it far more expensive to run a small business or be self employed, than to work for a company
Lmao you’re fucking naive if you think their wealth is captured by their nominal bank account. Do you know how influence work, yes? Corruption, traffic of influence, all that?
It was most likely money that bought that power.
I mean they’re obviously loaded. But on the other hand, they are the same family as every European royals.
You don’t need to be nominally rich when you can just say a word and public money will flow the way you want.
A friend tried to get subventions from the palace. It was for a theater piece for disfranchised kid.
They answered that social mixing was bad.