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Yngvild Ingels: “Six months after the floods, the federal government is still nowhere.”

13 January 2022

Six months after the unprecedented and devastating floods last summer, the federal government is still nowhere with the analysis of the disaster. Minister of the Interior Verlinden refused the N-VA’s request for an inquiry committee. But even her own plans - a “discovery committee” - remain mere …

No support for journalists behind the “Congo Hold-Up”

12 January 2022

Investigative journalists and NGOs recently published the so-called “Congo Hold-Up” investigation, in which they accuse former Congolese President Joseph Kabila of large-scale fraud with public funds. The latter is now threatening to take legal action. N-VA MP Kathleen Depoorter regrets that …

“The debate on mandatory vaccination must be conducted transparently and seriously”

11 January 2022

The debate on mandatory vaccination will be held in parliament. “A good thing,” said federal N-VA party chairman Peter De Roover in the TV programme De Afspraak on VRT, “especially after parliament was sidelined by the pandemic law.” According to De Roover, it is only natural that a broad, open and …

Mandatory civic integration in Brussels is delayed once again

11 January 2022

The fifth deadline for the introduction of mandatory integration in Brussels will probably not be met either. After much postponement, that deadline was 1 April 2022, but the uniform computerised system, which was to be developed by Brussels Ecolo minister Alain Maron, is not ready yet. Flemish MP …

Abolition of the Senate: not words, but deeds!

8 January 2022

In the Het Nieuwsblad newspaper of 8 January, Senate President Stephanie D’Hose (Open VLD party) called for the abolition of the Senate. N-VA group leader in the Senate, Karl Vanlouwe, supports this call but criticises the lack of action: “I can only hope that Open VLD is serious this time and that …

Flanders must not lose the “war for talent”

5 January 2022

Since 2019, a so-called “single permit” has been in force: an electronic residence permit that contains both a work permit and a residence permit. This makes it possible to attract foreign talents to our labour market. However, the processing time for such an application is almost three months. “We …

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