Herent Mayor Luk Draye must answer to the governor of Flemish Brabant on account of an automatic out-of-office email. Mayor Draye drafted an out-of-office message in Belgium’s three national languages, Dutch, French and German. An act of basic courtesy, says Draye, although in doing so he breached Belgian language legislation.

Herent Mayor Luk Draye must answer to the governor of Flemish Brabant on account of an automatic out-of-office email. Mayor Draye drafted an out-of-office message in Belgium’s three national languages, Dutch, French and German. An act of basic courtesy, says Draye, although in doing so he breached Belgian language legislation.