Anneleen Van Bossuyt moves to Europe for the N-VA

Anneleen Van Bossuyt has been officially appointed as a Member of the European Parliament for the N-VA. She replaces Louis Ide, who was recently elected as general party secretary.

Van Bossuyt wants to help bridge the gap between citizens and Europe: “Too often the European Union is faced with a lack of credibility and is viewed as being too remote by many people. The solution is a Europe that focuses on core tasks, which offer genuine added value. Other tasks are best tackled closer to citizens: at the local, regional or national level.” She adds that the “Europeanisation” of regional and national parliaments could also help to bring citizens closer to Europe: “The European debate must also be conducted more in those parliaments.”

Constructive criticism
In the European Parliament, Anneleen Van Bossuyt will serve as a permanent member of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee and a deputy member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee. “These are policy areas that have a major impact on Flanders and Belgium. I am also looking forward, with a critically constructive attitude, to jointly building a European Union that strives in every respect for fewer and more effective regulations that focus on growth, jobs and Competitiveness The extent to which companies in one country can compete with similar companies in another country. A law came into force in Belgium in 1996 to monitor competitiveness. This stipulates that Belgian salaries may not evolve faster than the average of those in the three neighbouring countries. The Central Economic Council (CEC) performs an annual measurement to see if the objectives have been obtained. competitiveness .”

European bug
Anneleen Van Bossuyt (35) was bitten by the European bug a long time ago. Following her studies in European law in France, she began work as an assistant at the European Institute of the Faculty of Law at Ghent University. In 2010, she moved to the N-VA’s research department, where she was responsible for the domain of Europe. In this role she was also closely involved in preparations for the N-VA conference on Confederalism If we want to make structural changes, then we have to change the structures. Confederalism is the structural change that this country needs. The basic principle of confederalism is that Flanders and Wallonia are the owners of all powers. They exercise these themselves, but can also make decisions together and manage certain powers together at the confederal level, in both of their interests. This completely reverses the logic. Instead of transferring federal powers to Flanders and Wallonia, these powers can be transferred to the confederal level. Forced cooperation is replaced by voluntary cooperation. Must becomes will. Dismantling from above becomes building up from below. Confederalism is therefore deciding together on what we want to do together. confederalism and in federal government negotiations. Anneleen comes from Heusden (Destelbergen). She is a lawyer and the mother of Mattias (5) and Jasmijn (4).