OUR OPINION. It must be every Flamingant’s wet dream: Elio Di Rupo stammering, praying and begging at the gate

Elio Di Rupo (PS) and Jan Jambon (N-VA) are sick in the same bed. Within a few years, the Walloon budget will be in balance, said Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo (PS) last Friday. Excuse me? Didn’t state bank Belfius send out a worrying signal? Aren’t they sitting there with a disturbing debt? With a special budget deficit of several billion euros? If it works, it’s thanks to the well-known budget tricks of the forum. Filter out the costs of reconstruction after the floods and the corona costs and hocus pocus: a balance. It is a form of self-deception. In Flanders we are not begging, but we use the same magic wand.

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