Today NPOs in Belgium face two large uncertainties in legal terms that seriously hinder optimal deployment and further development of their activities. In the first place, they struggle with the ban on commercial activities, included in article 1 of the NPO-law.

At the start of the academic year Itinera takes a look at the evolution of higher education. Itinera organized a survey of the academic corps: 5000 academics, 1300 respondents. The findings of the workplace of the universities and colleges provide alarming observations.

In their search for smart savings, the Itinera Institute went knocking on the door of several top officials of the federal government. 56 officials formulated no less than 450 concrete and feasible proposals that can make the functioning of the public services more efficient and cost-saving.

Rudi Verheyen has collected and evaluated the increasing criticism in a recent policy note and has come to the conclusion that a number of developments, (structure) reforms and policy decisions very likely have a negative influence on the quality of Higher Education.

Belgium didn’t show a lot of fiscal discipline in the good economic times. Since 2009 our country belongs to countries in the excessive deficit procedure with a strict surveillance of the European Commission. The nonsensical debate about austerity should be overcome.

By giving incentives to early retirement pension systems aggravate the problem of financial sustainability.