2023-07-05 06:55:00
“What was important in this case was the substance. Visas have been granted to representatives of one of the most terrible regimes in the world, the Iranian regime […] Minister Lahbib changed version in parliament, she recognized errors and therefore for us it remains problematic in a democracy like ours. She should have stepped aside, but she didn’t. But our goal is not to bring down the government because we are attentive to the stability of the country, to the image of the country abroad”, repeated the deputy. “For us this file is not closed on the merits.”
When Jean Marc Nollet, the co-president of Ecolo, says that she is in current affairs, “it means that we no longer have confidence in the action of the minister”, specifies Gilles Vanden Burre.
And this while Belgium will soon preside over the European Union, Hadja Lahbib in the front line. “Politically it is a problem, she must regain our confidence. It has nothing to do with the person, contrary to what Louis Michel said on your antenna yesterday, we do not hunt people. It is the bottom and the responsibility of the minister that are targeted.”
Crisis at the federal level: the PS no longer says “Ms. Minister”, but “Ms. Lahbib”
If the ecologist does not directly target Hadja Lahbib, he openly targets his party president, Georges-Louis Bouchez. “The president of the MR has a heavy responsibility in this file,” he admits. “He said very explicitly, ‘if you mess with my minister I’ll blow up the whole government’. The country’s stability and the country’s image have been threatened by his behavior. He has a way of working that is more and more incomprehensible and unbearable of saying ‘if you don’t prove me right, I’ll upset the table’. Every day, on all files”, he attacks. “Here I am not aiming for liberal ideas but his way of working as a team”
”Require banks to structurally increase their rates”
Other topics. Ecolo will pose this Wednesday in the Finance Committee a text aimed at automatically increasing interest rates on savings accounts. The Greens find the difference between the rates charged by Belgian banks and the ECB rates totally “unfair”. “We are asking that the minimum bank rate increase when international rates increase,” explains Gilles Vanden Burre.
Regarding pension reform and tax reform, the environmentalist said he was optimistic to reach an agreement by July 21, the national holiday. “For us, limiting unemployment benefits over time is unthinkable because it is totally ineffective […]. I don’t think that encouraging is punishing,” he said in response to Croo’s proposal in particular.
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