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Matthias Diependaele wants World Heritage recognition for WWI sites

10 May 2023

Flemish Minister for Immovable Heritage Matthias Diependaele has once again placed the recognition of World War I monuments and cemeteries as World Heritage Sites on the UNESCO Committee’s agenda. He announced this on the sidelines of an extraordinary funeral: soldier Robert Kenneth Malcolm was …

Belgium is Europe’s debt champion

4 May 2023

It’s raining bad figures for the De Croo government. Asset manager Janus Henderson’s Sovereign Debt Index unmasks Belgium as Europe’s debt champion relative to the number of its inhabitants. “Belgium is also the only country with a high national debt that is not reducing this debt,” says MP Sander …

Brussels’ climate action plan is full of hot air

3 May 2023

The new Brussels climate action plan appears to be only a shadow of the original plan announced by Minister Maron last year. While the Brussels government confirms its ambition to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 47% by 2030, the government is significantly weakening the measures needed to …

Brussels continues to squander money through the Beliris Fund: “Carpet trade”

27 April 2023

Late last week, the federal and Brussels governments reached an agreement to invest an additional EUR 279 million in Brussels in 2023 and 2024 through the Beliris Fund. This money will be used to start up 15 new investment projects, among other things. That decision meets with little sympathy from …

Brussels ban on evictions is communist hocus pocus

27 April 2023

The Brussels Government’s proposal to prevent evictions makes it almost impossible for landlords to manage their property. The government is making the procedure particularly difficult and putting so many obstacles in the way that it is becoming particularly difficult to evict tenants who do not …

Victims of family violence left to their fate in Brussels

24 April 2023

Perpetrators of family violence will no longer be prohibited from returning home. This is one of the crisis measures taken by the Brussels public prosecutor’s office due to the acute shortage of personnel. Brussels MP Mathias Vanden Borre responds with concern: “This impunity undermines all policy …

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