The Belgian capital had been without a regional government since an election in June 2024, with parties\u00a0unable to agree on forming a coalition, causing chaos for the city\u2019s finances. Brussels is currently grappling with a staggering \u20ac15 billion debt, raising concerns about a looming\u00a0financial crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The parties involved in this week\u2019s talks were the Francophone MR, socialist PS and centrist Les Engag\u00e9s, and the Flemish leftist Groen, social democratic party Vooruit, liberal Anders and conservative CD&V.<\/p>\n
Speaking at an informal European leaders summit, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever reacted with cautious optimism to the news. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen the WhatsApp messages coming in about it. I mainly want to see what the agreement entails,\u201d he said, adding \u201cthe Brussels budget has completely gone off the rails.\u201d<\/p>\n
Belgium\u2019s devolved system of governance means its three regions \u2014 French-speaking Wallonia in the south, Dutch-speaking Flanders in the north and Brussels sandwiched between them \u2014 each have a government separate from Belgium\u2019s national government.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Belgian capital had been without a regional government since an election in June 2024, with parties\u00a0unable to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[76,1586,7,18,1587],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-bart-de-wever","tag-belgian-politics","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-governance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}