Country Report of the European Commission in line with the N-VA point of view: expenditure must go down

“For many years, the N-VA has been saying that the problem is on the expenditure side and is happy that the European Commission is now agreeing with this.” The N-VA responds to the latest Country Report on Belgium by the European Commission. In it, it praises the important steps that have already been taken under the N-VA government on the one hand. It points out the numerous challenges that still remain on the other. “For the first time, the Commission is also clearly explaining in its report where the bottleneck is to be found in the Belgian budget: the expenditure is far too high,” is the N-VA’s analysis.

Cuts in the government

In order to bring down that high expenditure, cuts must be made in the government system, the plethora of subsidies and the ever-increasing social expenditure. “In government, we succeeded in reducing government spending by 12 billion euros. We used half of the proceeds to plug the hole in the budget, and we gave the other half back to the people. Indeed, it was high time that we reduced the sky-high taxes,” the N-VA explains.

Getting things in order

But the N-VA also realises that the job is not yet done. When we sum up all the policy that Europe demands of us, as well as the further reorganisation of the budget, it is impressive: investing an extra four billion a year in infrastructure, preparing to find an extra 20 billion a year to cover the costs of the ageing of the population, lowering the labour costs with a new Tax shift There is a tax shift when a new tax is implemented or an existing tax is increased in order to reduce or get rid of another tax. The N-VA is a proponent of a shift of the burden on labour to that on consumption or environmental pollution, for example, but not of a tax that increases the total burden of taxation. tax shift , increasing employment among the population, tackling the complexity of our state structure, making the labour market more flexible. “You can’t clean up a quarter of a century of squandering by the left in one legislature. But we’re halfway there, and if voters grant us another five years, we will ensure that we can once again take our full place among the exemplary countries of Northern Europe that have their affairs completely in order,” the N-VA concludes.