Budget deficits
Among all the regional agreements, the Flemish one sadly stands alone when it comes to numerically clarifying the way politicians are going to manage public money.
Prosperity
Itinera gaat voor een samenleving waar het aangenaam is om te leven, waar frisse, ambitieuze ideeën de kans krijgen uit te groeien tot duurzame ondernemingen, waar onderwijs jongeren klaarstoomt en zin geeft, en waar innovaties transformeren in succesvolle producten in een economie die blijft bloeien.
Discriminatory banking supervision
We’re expected to believe that regulation will not fail next time. Yet, there’s no shame in questioning your own beliefs and being sufficiently sceptical. Financial reforms as seen by official bodies today have to be implemented in the short term.
The Day After: what are the regional policy priorities for 2009-2014
The regional elections of 2009 should be a turning point. Due to the economic crisis, the budgetary crisis and the institutional crisis, Belgian’s regions are faced with new responsibilities.
The necessity of reforming the banking system
At this moment comparable conclusions to those of our extraordinary parliamentary commission are being drawn all around the world. It would really be counterproductive to lead a strategy of divide and rule.
Only systemic reforms can make social security sustainable
For Marc De Vos, it is “game over” with the preparation of ageing in Belgium. Our social security is not sustainable. The budgetary situation needs fixing, but only policy reform can save us. We urgently need a broad societal consensus on a new socioeconomic model.
Paradigms of future health care organization in Belgium
Belgium’s budgetary policy is again crumbling across the board. Marc De Vos and Brieuc Van Damme point out that healthcare policy has been dominated by budgetary concerns for years.
Budgetary recovery in bad times
Even before the crisis, we knew that the next generations would have to pay for the financing of our pensions and health care. But on top of this big challenge, we are facing a deep crisis today. Many call for a so-called “deficit-spending”.
Plea for a new dismissal law
Marc De Vos stresses that the harmonisation of dismissal law for blue collar and white collar workers has to serve two priorities: equal rights and labour market circulation. We need to combine income security with tailor made re-employment.
Use care for the elderly as an economic opportunity
Marc De Vos points out that care for the elderly constitutes a fantastic economic opportunity. He underscores that government has the task to offer a framework that allows seniors to choose and finance their twilight years.
