Prime Minister De Wever still has two days to meet his own – umpteenth – budget deadline, but the government continues to go around in circles. The fact that a ‘hidden index jump’ remains on the table increasingly irritates the socialists. But perhaps what is most annoying is that the MR is barely moving forward. “Some chairmen do not realize that there is a haste behind it,” N-VA chair Valerie Van Peel grumbled to her supporters last night.

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