The new think tank “InES” wants to fight against inequalities in Belgium

Twenty researchers, teachers, social actors and associations are launching the “InES” think tank, for “Inclusion, equality, solidarity”. Website, analyses, proposals. It moves. Céline Nieuwenhuys and Andrea Rea explain themselves.

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By Christophe Berti and David Coppi

Published on 02/14/2023 at 06:00
Reading time: 6 mins

Chere is the great return of “equal conditions” following 20 or 30 years of reign – not without division, of course – of “equal opportunities”. The think tank “InES”, for “Inclusion-Equality-Solidarity” is born and brings the concept to light. A theoretical choice with multiple implications. Founding members (there were regarding twenty at the start: read below), Andrea Rea, professor of sociology at the ULB, and Céline Nieuwenhuys, from the association, Secretary General of the Federation of Social Services, who was a member of the group of experts advising federal government on covid, argue. “With the financial crisis of 2008, the covid crisis, now the energy crisis, we can clearly see that public policies are above all challenged to improve the living conditions of individuals, where it is necessary to “repair”, as we said.

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