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Stricter rules for refugees remaining in Belgium and for family reunification

25 September 2015
Stricter rules for refugees remaining in Belgium and for family reunification

The federal government has reached an agreement in principle on the tightening of residency and family reunification rules applicable to persons with official refugee status. For example, refugees would no longer be granted a permanent residence permit. “Once the conflict in their country of origin …

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Bart De Wever: “Greater realism is required in dealing with the refugee crisis”

23 September 2015
Bart De Wever: “Greater realism is required in dealing with the refugee crisis”

During the opening speech for the Political Sciences programme at Ghent University, guest speaker and N-VA chairman Bart De Wever took a good hour to thoroughly analyse the European refugee crisis. At the same time, he offered specific solutions for dealing with the crisis in a realistic and …

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N-VA wants fewer and better European rules

23 September 2015
N-VA wants fewer and better European rules

“Europe should only pass legislation when this clearly offers added value,” says Anneleen Van Bossuyt, Member of the European Parliament. Her report on better regulation-making in the European internal market has already been ratified in the competent committee of the European Parliament. In this …

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Long-term unemployed persons: Flanders is already doing more now than Europe requires

17 September 2015
Long-term unemployed persons: Flanders is already doing more now than Europe requires

European Commissioner for Employment and Social Affairs Marianne Thyssen (CD&V) has launched a European action plan for those who have been unemployed for more than one year. “But when it comes to assistance for the long-term unemployed, Flanders is already doing significantly better than what she …

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N-VA wishes to link child allowance payments to length of stay

12 September 2015
N-VA wishes to link child allowance payments to length of stay

Federal MP Sarah Smeyers has a bill ready that would only grant full child allowance payments to people who have lived in Belgium for at least four of the past ten years. “It is precisely this child allowance system that appears to make Belgium too attractive and results in too heavy an influx of …

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Asylum crisis: “All Member States must take responsibility within strong European borders”

9 September 2015
Asylum crisis: “All Member States must take responsibility within strong European borders”

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker devoted nearly his entire State of the Union address to the asylum crisis. “Actually, we can only make an assessment of his speech once we know more about the specific elements of the plans that he presented,” says Sander Loones, N-VA vice-chairman …

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