The guest first wanted to express her “complete solidarity” with Olivier Vandecasteele, this Belgian detained in Iran for almost a year for espionage and money laundering. Zakia Khattabi says things are moving behind the scenes to try to negotiate his release.
Olivier Vandecasteele was able to talk with his family for 15 minutes
The Ecolo member then confided in Martin Buxant’s microphone regarding a “just transition” in Belgium. “All sectors are concerned”, she explains. “Whether it is the economy, employment, training, education… they must be affected by these issues”says the Federal Minister for Climate and the Environment. “This requires a national mobilization and a dialogue of all the entities”, she claims. Zakia Khattabi regrets, however, that Flanders vetoed the national conference on the subject: “It will therefore be absent from the discussions, to the detriment of the Belgians in the region. It’s the empty chair policy.she laments.
”No more reform can be done outside the framework of carbon neutrality”
Another subject discussed on Monday: immigration. Lately, pressure has been mounting within the European Union to fund fences at its external borders to combat irregular immigration. The federal minister criticizes certain Democrats, in particular Conner Rousseau (Vooruit), of “take up ideas from the far right with a veneer of respectability”. Pour Zakia Khattabi,we thread the clichés like pearls without putting valid proposals on the table”: “No one leaves their country of joy of heart if they have enough to feed their children”she shouts.
