I trained to be a professional pizzamaker in Italy ~6 years ago, but as mentioned if you do not have a right to work in the EU you will inevitably have problems when it comes to finishing the apprenticeship. If it's learning "just for fun" then by all means I don't think you'll have any problems with cooking classes.
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Professional chef courses are for people training to be chefs and working full time in that industry. These are not cheap courses as people are investing in their career.
This isn't something you study on the side, get your qualities and perhaps use later.
The closest to a chefs training will be Cordonbleu, they have short courses, again not cheap due to their highly trained, well-known school and teachers
https://www.cordonbleu.edu/programmes/en
-ex Chef
Current chef here, culinary school is usually in the local language so do you speak, read and write any language besides English? Second school is generally an all day affair so you will need to dedicate 8 to 10 hours a day to it. Third cooking is physically demanding, you’re on your feet all day, lifting stuff, squatting and generally running around.
With all of the above how will you do all of that and still do your regular work effectively? When I was in culinary school I would sleep maybe 4 hours at best a night because I had to work a full time job at night. It was a total nightmare and shitshow.
Becoming a certified chef usually means completing a full-time (+overtime) several-year programme that you pay for. Are you okay with that? Then, basically any restaurant in France or Germany will take you in as an apprentice.
you say you want a course but no cooking class? What's the difference to you?
You will need to speak the local lingo and if you’re just doing it as a lark a serious chef may be insulted