Our political chief: “Do the strongest shoulders bear the heaviest burdens? I’m inclined to say not”
Prime Minister Bart De Wever asked the king for 50 days on November 6. 50 days to find a budget agreement worth 10 billion euros. Ultimately, an agreement was reached for 9.2 billion euros. Is that enough? What does the agreement say? Who will pay the bill? And has De Wever now saved his government? Marjan Justaert talks about it with our political chief Jan-Frederik Abbeloos. “Bart De Wever has always speculated that no one would dare to drop this government,” he says. “De Wever let time play its role and in the end all those chairmen with their big egos, who were against his original opening bid, gradually became tired one by one and were satisfied with what they were able to achieve.”
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