“The king is in the middle of the budget negotiations. He is being threatened as the ultimate trump card.” If the federal government has not reached an agreement on the budget by November 6, Prime Minister Bart De Wever (N-VA) will go to the king, he said last Friday. “It is a trick to keep up the pressure,” say our political journalists in our HLN podcast Het Rapport van de Wetstraat.
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🎧 “Bart De Wever uses the king as a coin”: our political analysts about the budget talks
Bytaketonews
Oct 29, 2025