Five months and 19 days already from Belgium under the government of Wever, our Flemish nationalist Prime Minister. But are their decisions, their reforms rather “long live Belgium” or “long live Flanders? »»
The question was asked for two political scientists: one is Liège, and the other is Antwerp on the right.
“I would say Long live Flanders,” said Geoffrey Grandjean, political scientist at the University of Liège. “I believe that it is clearly a program further on the right that is executed,” said Dave Sinardet, political scientist at VUB.
Can we therefore say that it would be rather lively Belgium, but on the right? “I think we could say that, yes”. No particular Flemish favoritism according to this political scientist.
“The N-VA does what she had promised”
Take for example the unemployment reform and the exclusion of the unemployed after two years. The most affected regions are Brussels and Wallonia. On the other hand, the tax on capital gains, it is above all in Flanders that it will be perceived.
“I don’t think there is really a kind of favoritism. I believe that the explanation, for certain measures, is rather that we want to conduct a policy much further on the right. The N-VA does a little what it had promised: policies further right, without institutional, but through Belgium ”.
“An advance for Flanders”
Another point of view on the Wever government: that of an executive who would have more benefits for Flanders by closing the great Easter and summer agreements which deals in particular with pension reform, tax reform, modernization and flexibilization of the labor market.
“I would say that reforms are not that they benefit from Flanders more, but it is that they give more autonomy to regions, communities, indirectly, and that we advance in federalism. And from this point of view, it could indeed be an advance for Flanders ”.
Bart de Wever himself recognized in Parliament last March that the socio-economic reforms provided for by his government have a community aspect.
