I have to come to the defence of my Belgian colleagues. I spent about 10 years teaching them and they came in all shapes from youngsters with about 250 hours straight out of the SABENA academy right up to old hairys like myself. Very, very few them were not up to the mark. In fact, I would go so far as to say that they were generally a better proposition than their British colleagues.
One noticeable difference was that the Belgian students devoured manuals whereas the Brits learned the minimum possible and then used the manual as a door stop!
One of my friends has just started at Jetair. Mind you, he is a bloody good operator and he speaks fluent English, French and Flemish and has a good knowledge of German.