Duality in Europe
In order to enable sufficient investments, one can reintroduce the old technique of an ordinary and extraordinary budget. Together with a minimum percentage of investments in the total expenditure in the budget rule book.
Trust as essential component of the economy
Analysis shows trust to be an essential component for economic prosperity. Human built institutions enable us to maintain intensive cooperation that are of the essence for our society. Labour specialization, the accumulation of knowledge and the sharing of risks are all key to this.
Books will soon be obsolete in schools
The introduction of new media in education does not have per definition a positive impact. Neither tablets, nor digitalized books, nor the structure of the education system can guarantee the performances and learning improvement of pupils.
Keep paying attention to social mobility
Instead of only looking at the status of the income distribution at one point in time, we foremost have to analyze how rigid these relations are. Policy- wise this implies foremost to put more emphasis on social mobility and accessible education.
Pessimism not needed
Marc De Vos nuances the new doomsday-scenario from the Club of Rome. No one can know how the world will look in 2052. But it is much more likely to be much better than worse.
Belgium is an immigration nation
Itinera launched a first series of studies and debates on the pretext of “Mobilization for integration”. Laurent Hanseeuw (fellow Itinera Institute) concludes in his report that a quarter of the Belgian population has at least one parent born abroad.
Has integration policy failed?
More than twenty years the issue of integration has been part of the preoccupations of our country, since the famous report of the royal commissariat, the predecessor of the current Centrum for Equity of Chances.
From respect for being different to an ethics of living together
All immigration countries are facing huge challenges and need to find a solution for the growing diversification of the population. The quest for the ideal model of living together is one of the big current issues for which every political party needs to give an answer in its program.
Immigration nation Belgium: statistics and trends
The second part of the twentieth century Belgium has become an immigration nation.
