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Sixth state reform: Flanders foots the bill

9 July 2013

With the sixth state reform, the Di Rupo federal government is transferring its cutbacks to Flanders. For the competences that the federal level is transferring to Flanders, it is only transferring 87% of the resources. This means that Flanders has to save 13% on child benefits, the woonbonus tax …

Almost a third of prisoners in Belgium illegal

8 July 2013

Of our country’s approximately 11,700 prisoners, 3,596 were residing illegally in Belgium at the start of the year, and this at a time when Belgium’s prisons are struggling with serious overpopulation. The N-VA therefore wants the federal government to step up efforts to call upon enforceable …

New tax increases are totally incomprehensible

1 July 2013

Belgium is confronted with a difficult economic climate and towering national debt, and is one of the countries in the world with the heaviest tax burdens. Yet the federal government is still treading the path of taxation. Interventions in budgetary control remain limited to slowed growth for …

N-VA delighted with compensations for industrial companies

28 June 2013

On 28 June 2013, the Flemish Government approved the Flemish Climate Plan. This plan includes an important compensation rule for the extra competitiveness disadvantage - the indirect “carbon leakage” - with which our companies have been fighting for some months now. The agreement thus ensures strong …

Flemish "game fund" a great succes

25 June 2013

In June 2012, the Flemish Government decided to encourage the production of video games in Flanders. A “game fund” was created in order to offer support to the sector. According to recent data from the Belgian Entertainment Association, almost six million video games were purchased in Belgium last …

N-VA condemns hard crackdown on democratic protest in Turkey

13 June 2013

Turkey is in a state of uproar due to the hard-handed approach taken by the Erdoğan government to disperse the protest demonstrations of its citizens. Today the European Parliament adopted a resolution on this topic, stating that Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan should take a conciliatory approach and …

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