With its budget for 2023, Belgium is partially outside the European lines. This is what the European Commission states in its analysis of the draft budget submitted a few weeks ago. Against the agreements, our country is allowing primary spending to rise too high. The Commission rejects the automatic indexation of civil servants ‘ salaries and benefits, and also criticises the broad energy support. There will be no sanctions, but the Commission does ask Belgium to ‘keep those expenses within limits’. For its analysis, the Commission relies on the policy…
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