Petra De Sutter (Groen), Vice-Premier, indicated on Sunday in De Zevende Dag (Eén, VRT) that she did not want to wait for a global nuclear agreement to determine measures to reduce the bill for citizens. Annelies Verlinden (CD&V) holds the same speech.
On the side of the French-speaking Greens, the two files seem to be linked, however, in the speech given on Sunday by the co-president of Ecolo Jean-Marc Nollet, to RTL: “Both in terms of heating, electricity and mobility, specific measures and structural measures are needed at the Belgian level.“, he summarizes.
Short term, “all the party presidents are going in the same direction, we must now set the amounts“.
Go towards 100% renewable
In the longer term, environmentalists, both French-speaking and Flemish, insist on the importance of providing more aid to insulate homes, the development of alternatives to the car, the acceleration of the transition to renewables. “The question that arises today (of an extension or not of a few nuclear reactors), is limited to the next 10 years“, says Jean-Marc Nollet. “The horizon, the cape“, remains the same: “100% renewable“.
In the same line of thought, Petra De Sutter pleads on Sunday in a communication for a reduction in the price of public transport and for a minimum VAT on the purchase and installation of solar panels, heat pumps and solar water heaters. , for all dwellings (without limitation linked to the age of the building).
If Jean-Marc Nollet does not come out once morest a drop in fuel prices at the pump in the short term, Petra De Sutter (Groen) indicated in De Zevende Dag that she was not in favor of Vincent Van Peteghem’s proposal, of a reduction of excise duties to a minimum on fuels. The maximum reduction in excise duties would cost, according to her, two billion euros per year and carries a risk of perverse effects, she notes.
