Van Greeks recalled that Vlaams Belang has been campaigning for affordable energy for months with proposals to permanently lower the VAT rate on gas and electricity, a temporary fixed price at the pump, a basic energy package at zero rate, and the taxes and levies from the bill. so that people only have to pay the effective cost of energy and distribution.
Vice-chairman Chris Janssens said that Vlaams Belang launched the proposal years ago to set up a Flemish energy company to provide for its own energy production.
In his speech, Van Grieken also lashed out at the Vivaldi government and in that regard also had a solution for the war in Ukraine: sending Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Open Vld) and Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten (Green) to Moscow as advisers. .
“If Putin meticulously carries out what Alexander and Tinne recommend, he will soon have a budget deficit bigger than Red Square and a mountain of debt bigger than the Ural Mountains. Not only will he have to withdraw from Ukraine, he will probably also have to donate a piece of Russia, replace the ruble with the euro and introduce Ukrainian as an official language in Moscow and St Petersburg.”