This group includes experts who are also representatives of all the Vivaldi parties, which risks politicizing certain sensitive subjects such as the tax on the rich, the indexation of wages, the transformation of VAT into excise duties or even the activation of the unemployed. .
“That there is diversity is good since Vivaldi is a fairly diversified government. Which does not prevent us from agreeing on certain things, and on other things, we can be agree to disagree. It’s a way of informing the debate and thereby perhaps partially dispassionating it, even if we do agree that there will be very distributive questions. in there and therefore not everyone will agree”says economist Mathias Dewatripont.
As for Philippe Defeyt, he argues that the experts chosen are “truly independent”. And to continue: “There are of course difficult subjects; there are some that are less difficult, for example in terms of social measures. On the other hand, we know that there are other delicate subjects. The most delicate is obviously that of indexation and the law on competitiveness, which are subjects discussed today”.
