News

The N-VA wants a clean slate: “Replace the Muslim executive with a Flemish body”

8 October 2021
Koen Metsu & Nadia Sminate

The Flemish Parliament is working on a new decree for the recognition of religious communities in Flanders. The decree reconciles religious freedom and the limitation of planning burden with the universally recognised need for control. On the basis of this decree, stricter and better control will …

Read more

The N-VA demands the strict application of language legislation in the Flemish Periphery

7 October 2021

The Council of State has annulled the decision of former Flemish Minister for the Interior Liesbeth Homans (N-VA) on the establishment of a language register in the facility municipalities. In doing so, the Council states that facility municipalities may indeed include the language preference of …

Read more

The new recognition procedure for religious services in Brussels is highly questionable

6 October 2021
Mathias Vanden Borre

In Flanders, the reform of the legislative framework for local religious communities is in its final stages. In Brussels, too, the Brussels Government is presenting its reform plans on the procedure for recognising religious services. “I am still dissatisfied about the fundamental challenges in our …

Read more

A dissuasion campaign for so-called “Dublin asylum seekers” will lead to nothing without a flanking policy

6 October 2021
Theo Francken

On Tuesday, the Immigration Department will start dissuasion campaigns to slow down the influx of asylum seekers in Belgium who had already applied for asylum elsewhere in Europe. The campaign comes after long insistence from the N-VA, but it will lead to nothing without a flanking policy, …

Read more

Minister Van der Straeten insists on green dogmas in the International Energy Agency as well

1 October 2021
Tinne Van der Straeten

Federal Minister of Energy Tinne Van der Straeten (Groen) had a recommendation of the International Energy Agency (IEA) that says that Belgium must prepare for extending the life of nuclear power plants deleted from a draft report. Flemish Minister of Energy Zuhal Demir denounced this deletion in a …

Read more

The hypocrisy of the Brussels majority: the opening of Laeken Park postponed

1 October 2021
Cieltje Van Achter

The opening of the Royal Park of Laeken will not take place any time soon after all. More than half a year after the announcement of the Brussels majority parties, Parliament has still not received a text proposal. Cieltje Van Achter, N-VA group chair in the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital …

Read more