The Voice Test © Fred Debrock It worries many savers: although the banks are making huge profits, they are barely raising interest on savings accounts. Most political parties want to force the banks to raise interest rates, according to De Votetest, although one party is against it. The banks made billions in profits last year. … Read more
“Intox total!!” Maxime Prévot, the chairman of Les Engagés, emphatically contradicts with two exclamation marks that there is already an agreement between his party, sister party CD&V and the MR. “There is no agreement whatsoever.” That is what Bart De Wever, the chairman of the N-VA, claims in an interview in the weekly magazine Humo. … Read more
N-VA chairman Bart De Wever believes that Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten (Green) should be removed from the file on the extension of nuclear power plants. “She negotiates with Engie to fail.” As chairman of the largest opposition party, he even offered a change majority in The news from VTM. – In recent days, … Read more
– © BELGIAN – At CD&V, they cannot laugh at Matthias Diependaele’s proposal to transfer up to half a billion euros from social housing to the private rental market. “There are so many people who are on a waiting list for social housing. This money must go to what it is intended for,” says Hilde … Read more
– © blg – Matthias Diependaele (N-VA) wants to skim up to half a billion from the budget for social housing to invest in the private market. According to the minister, that money will not be spent because he “collides with the limits of the social housing sector”. He wants to offer property developers loans … Read more
– – The cookies with which the N-VA would celebrate their twentieth anniversary may temporarily no longer be sold. Not because there is something wrong with the cookies, but because the party forgot something. – Laurence Torck Today at 18:57— “This product is currently out of stock,” reads the party’s website for the Nil Volentibus … Read more
– – Ministers Tinne Van der Straeten (Green) and Zuhal Demir (N-VA) are razing each other’s climate approach. The Flemish and federal governments have clashed before about corona and the labor market reform, but the mutual discontent has never been more visible than it is now. It looks very likely that we will have counter-federalism … Read more
Flemish Minister for the Environment Zuhal Demir (N-VA) will not go to the climate summit in Glasgow after all. A corona infection in her cabinet throws a spanner in the works. – Bad luck. A day before Flemish Minister for the Environment Zuhal Demir was due to attend the climate summit in Glasgow, her head … Read more
– An installer connects a heat pump to an existing boiler. — © Belgian – energy Flemish government The liberal climate proposal to ban gas as heating for new-build homes from 2023 is met with criticism in the construction sector. Isn’t more time needed? Can the local electricity grid handle that everywhere? – Nico Tanghe … Read more
– © BELGA – The eight university labs that have to analyze corona tests have seen their compensation significantly reduced. It turns out they haven’t been processing enough tests for the money they get for months. According to the labs and Minister Vandenbroucke, the compensation was so high to be able to switch quickly in … Read more