Bart De Wever speaks out about Brussels at BRUZZ
During the Flemish government negotiations, Peter De Roover in The appointment that N-VA and VB can govern together on the basis of a negotiated Government Programme. What VB mandate holders outside of that form to the Flemish constituency, the federal faction leaders are obliged not to form any forms.
After all, Brussels must above all develop a socio-economic policy, beyond the Community borders. Cooperation is of course more difficult for N-VA, especially at the local level here in Brussels. Not a word in this interview about the place of the new districts in the Metropolis. Or in Paris, London or Berlin of course.
Instead of an identitarian discourse, we should also think about the added value of each region for our country. Brussels with its capital city functions and its international service sector, such as Flanders with Antwerp and Zeebrugge, for example, can expand our national seaports.
It is clearly clear that a one-sided confederal logic in our country would reduce the Flemish claims to the capital via the capital functions and that the international economic policy for us would then serve to be guided in Brussels itself and with, for example, the proceeds of a ‘Brussels’ Corporation tax.
Terms such as ‘city toll’ for an inescapably slim kilometer in every region, or the ‘Marrakesh coalition’ for a UN migration pact signed in New York, are symptomatic of the social cohesion that is emerging today. Who advocates the recruiting power of the yet promised cooperative federalism?
Bart De Wever (N-VA) in A La Carte: ‘Brussels causes its historic transfer’ | BRUZZ