And precisely, they are two to find themselves in the case. Their two five-year terms ended and the two senior civil servants found themselves without a specific assignment, but with high remuneration, around 120,000 euros gross annually.
For the first, the government has found a solution. Former director of Brussels Economy and Employment, Peter Michiels has been “reassigned” as coordinator of the reception of Ukrainian refugees in the capital. Concrete, useful, even if the man did not have, a priori, any particular skills in this area.
The case of the second, Arlette Verkruyssen, is more tangent. She successively headed Brussels Urban Development then Brussels Housing. At the end of her second mandate, Arlette Verkruyssen was the subject of an “insufficient” evaluation. Never mind, as the rule provides, she could continue to receive her salary until pension. A kind of “Win for Life”, as Le Soir writes.