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“It is time for the bitter truth: Belgium is bankrupt”

4 September 2022

“Such a consultative committee on energy is an undisputed crown jewel of Belgian inability and surrealism. It is time for the bitter truth: this country is bankrupt. Our debt, our government spending, our deficits: we are becoming the new Greece. Prime Minister De Croo can say a lot, but he is …

Flanders will cooperate with the US against environmental pollution

24 August 2022

Flemish Environment Minister Zuhal Demir signed an agreement in Washington DC with the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the agency charged with protecting the environment, among other things. The intention is for the Flemish government services and the EPA to exchange information on …

Theo Francken: “Vivaldi’s open-door policy is causing the asylum chaos”

26 July 2022

Hundreds of asylum seekers have been waiting in vain for accommodation at the gates of the Petit-Château for days now. “This is utter chaos, and the Vivaldi government has only itself to blame. A welcoming policy is being pursued, as a result of which nothing is going right now, with thousands of …

By legalising cannabis, Close is simply giving up on the youth and the streets of Brussels

26 July 2022

Brussels mayor Philippe Close is unequivocally calling for the legalisation of cannabis and the opening of coffee shops. “Legalising drugs does not mean solving drug problems,” Brussels MP Mathias Vanden Borre says. “On the contrary, this would be a social defeat that would only benefit the drug …

Bart De Wever: “The pension agreement doesn’t propose anything; it is not quantified and pushes us further into the abyss”

20 July 2022

Party chairman Bart De Wever was quick with his first criticism of the De Croo government’s pension agreement. “It was necessary, because almost the entire Vivaldi majority is not defending this deal. Except for the PS party, because this agreement is tailor-made for it, like just about everything …

Asylum chaos: Already 1,254 judgements against the Vivaldi government for violating international asylum law

19 July 2022

This year alone, there are already 1,254 judgements by a court of law against the federal government for violating international asylum law. That is more than six judgements a day. This was the response of the new Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, Nicole de Moor, to a question from MP …

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