To keep all avenues open, Van der Straeten has to do extra legal work. So change laws and regulations. For that, she has to go to parliament, the Council of State and even the EU. Problem: The Belgian and European legislative mills turn slowly, very slowly.
Van der Straeten is also aware of this. “We still have a window of time to resolve that. Not very long, but it is there,” she admits in the report. That doesn’t sound so reassuring. If the permit for Vilvoorde is not obtained, Van der Straeten threatens to run into serious time constraints. Maybe she just won’t make it. Then the nuclear power plants will have to close without sufficient replacement power plants being available. Because there is really only one way out that can be taken immediately. And even that the outcome remains uncertain.
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