A tax shift away from labour should be top priority. The challenge of next government is a more just taxation that stimulates the economy in a transparent way. Itinera pleads for a tax reform that is budgetary realist.

Everyone who wonders what the big, fundamental priority of the Belgian labour market policy should be, doesn’t need to search for a long time.

The nuclear phase-out in our country is not too far away anymore. By 2015, the two oldest nuclear power plants of Doel will be closed after 40 years of use. Will the remaining available production capacity suffice to deal with exceptional peaks – for example in wintertime?

The housing premium mitigates the fiscal pressure on new housing development from 106% to 60% and is an important fiscal stimulus to acquire a house of its own. However, new housing estate is in further decrease, in spite of the housing premium.

Saudi Arabia has put its mark on Sunni islam worldwide, including in Belgium. The interference of the Saudi's in the Islamic landscape in Belgium stands in the way of the development of a Belgian islam.

Belgium ranks second in comparisons of total fiscal burden (as % of GDP).