The Belgian royal house on Friday urged to calm about the future of the master’s degree of the Princess Isabelthat the heiress to the throne in Belgium is studying at the Harvard University and that could be affected by the decision of the government of Donald Trump to prohibit this center enrolled to foreign students.
According to the flamenco newspaper Het Nieuwsbladthe deputy director of Communication of the Royal House, Lore Vandoorne, said that Princess Isabel is now concluding the first year of a Master in Public Policy In the American university and that, after this Thursday’s announcement, his family is examining the situation.
“Calm and wait”
“The repercussions of this decision, if any, will only be known in the next few days or weeks,” he added. “We have to see it with calm y wait. Many things can still happen. Will the decision really apply as we know it now? Only the time He will say it, “adds the Palace spokesman, Xavier Baert, cited by the same newspaper.
Isabel23, is the eldest daughter of the Kings Felipe and Matilde And it is the heiress to the throne since his father became monarch in 2013 with the abdicación his grandfather Alberto. Although Isabel has two male brothers, the Salic law this abolished in Belgium since 1991.
Trump tense the rope
The decision of the US government implies that Harvard of cannot enroll foreign students and that the current ones must move or lose their legal status.
It is not clear the immediate scope of the “transfer” for students who are currently pursuing a career. According to the information provided by the University itself, in this current course there are registered 6,793 foreign studentsequivalent to 27.2 % of the student body.
Of these, five are students from the Catholic University of Leuven, who has said that the impact for them “is not yet clear” but that they will contact them to help them and guide them if necessary, according to the flamenco press.
