ANALYSIS. Rarely has a government party been so rudely sidelined as CD&V in the nitrogen dossier that is important to the party | Opinions

“The political year has officially started earlier than expected,” writes political scientist Carl Devos. “In a tense atmosphere, Jambon I has to go to its last September statement, which N-VA does not want to screw up again. If that does happen, history threatens to repeat itself, and with that Jambon I also threatens to go down in history as a weak government. Can the Flemish government, with its broken trust and broken agreements, make a last big September deal, with nitrogen?