The N-VA wants 19 Brussels municipalities to become one city region

If it were up to the N-VA, the 19 Brussels municipalities would be merged and transformed into one city region. This is what the N-VA states in its programme for the elections in Brussels. The party has 10 priorities with which it also wants to bring about a much-needed turnaround in Brussels and even become “incontournable” (indispensable). “Otherwise, our capital will continue to be mismanaged,” the N-VA says.

The N-VA sees the main reform as transforming the 19 municipalities into one city region, with the current municipalities becoming districts, following the example of Paris and Antwerp. According to the party, the different police zones must also be unified into a single police force.

Budget on the negotiating table

Cieltje Van Achter, the N-VA’s current group chair, says that the budget must also be a priority on the negotiating table, although she criticises the fact that they have no insight into the investments the Brussels government has already committed to in the future. “But it is clear that everything can be done a lot more efficiently. Many more Brussels residents also need to work, and every euro that flows to subsidies must be rethought.”

Financial quagmire

Chairman Bart De Wever, who helped propose the plans, referred to the progress he has made in Antwerp: the city is now debt-free and its investment budget increased from 160 to 400 million euros. “Brussels is currently a financial quagmire.”

Strict enforcement

Furthermore, the party continues to insist on bilingualism in Brussels administrations and hospitals, it wants to make a firm commitment to cleanliness and quality of life through, among other things, a Cleanliness Patrol, strict enforcement in and around metro stations, a centralised administration for housing policy, a thorough activation policy to tackle the sky-high Brussels unemployment figures and more focus on integration and Civic integration Flanders has a policy for civic integration. This is a guided and targeted form of social integration for people of foreign origin. The intention is that the newcomers are provided with a valuable place in society by including them instead of excluding them. Civic integration, which includes language lessons and civic integration courses, was brought about by the participation of the N-VA in the Flemish Government since 2004 and the appointment of a Minister for Civic Integration. civic integration .