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Pressure on asylum reception due to longer period of residence of asylum seekers in Wallonia

27 January 2020
Le gouvernement résiduel dépense davantage pour l’accueil des demandeurs d’asile et réduit le budget affecté à la politique de retour

The period of residence of asylum seekers in Walloon municipal asylum reception structures is on average two months longer than in the Flemish asylum reception structures, a parliamentary question from the N-VA reveals. That generates an additional cost of 5 million euros a year, taking as our …

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Jan Jambon: “Flanders has many assets, and the market is starting to see that”

22 January 2020
Jan Jambon

“There has never been so much invested in Flanders. We have many assets, knowledge institutions and their spin-offs, and the market is starting to see that,” Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon said from the World Economic Forum in Davos on the news programme De Ochtend on Radio 1. Foreign …

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Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon visits Auschwitz

20 January 2020
Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon visits Auschwitz

Flemish Minister-President Jan Jambon visits Auschwitz to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the former German Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp. On the eve of the visit, he gave a speech to the European Jewish Association (EJA), in which he not only strongly …

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Ecorealism is still needed in the European Green Deal

17 January 2020
Green Deal européen : l’écoréalisme reste nécessaire

“The EU’s Green Deal is a proactive scheme to not just meet but even exceed climate goals, yet it has no detailed financing plan and no public support,” the N-VA says. Furthermore, the EU is dishing out a thousand billion euros for this scheme, while asylum and migration for example have to make do …

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The N-VA requests a strong European defence policy

16 January 2020

In the European Parliament, the N-VA voted in favour of a resolution for permanent defence cooperation among all European member states. However, fundamental decisions on European defence policy must be supported by all member states. According to N-VA MEPs Assita Kanko and Geert Bourgeois, we are …

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N-VA requests tightening of reception rights

9 January 2020

The asylum crisis cannot be tackled by opening ever more places for asylum seekers. The necessary government resources to do this are lacking and there is no public support for it either. The inflow into the reception network must urgently be reduced, and this is only possible if the law on …

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