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Twice the bill for cargo companies at Zaventem

8 December 2011

Due to a new formula for the calculation of the ‘Terminal Navigation Rates’, it appears that airlines and cargo companies at the airport in Zaventem are going to have to pay double the price. The passenger airlines will also have to pay more. The N-VA is afraid that those who are critical to the …

N-VA adjusts energy market rules

30 November 2011

Yesterday, the Parliamentary Committee dealt with the transposition of the third energy package, including many new rules for gas and electricity. Constructive opposition work by the N-VA resulted in the government adjusting many items in its draft. At the end of the day, no fewer than 11 N-VA …

Many taxes, few savings

27 November 2011

N-VA-Chairman Bart De Wever considers the budget agreement concluded by the governmental negotiators to be particularly disastrous. Indeed, two-thirds of it is based on extra taxes, with only one-third of it based on actual savings. In other words, the negotiators have done the exact opposite of …

Toughening up the procedure for obtaining residence permits for medical reasons doesn’t go far enough

23 November 2011

The procedure for obtaining residence permits for medical reasons is often used improperly in Belgium: in 2010, over 56% of all the residence permit applications on medical grounds dealt with in the first case by the Immigration Service were declared inadmissible. Of the admissible applications …

N-VA calls for social-economic emergency government

22 November 2011

These negotiations are never going to lead to a decent agreement. In view of the dire economic situation, the N-VA is therefore prepared to form a social-economic emergency government together with the Christian Democrats and the Liberals. This government must be formed in the very short term and …

Debate on the extension of nuclear power plants’ lifespan should be reopened

8 November 2011

The N-VA is requesting that the debate on phasing out nuclear energy be reopened in Parliament. The provisional results of the stress tests by the Federaal agentschap voor Nucleaire Controle (Federal Agency for Nuclear Control) show, after all, that the nuclear power plants in our country are safe …

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