OUR OPINION. “Maybe politicians don’t want you to understand how dramatic our budget is?”

If every Belgian and every company in this country were to hand over every euro they get their hands on to the state for a whole year, we would have to keep that up for two to three years in 2050 to get Belgium’s debt pit filled. “Our government debt is already dramatic,” writes deputy editor-in-chief Dimitri Antonissen. “But experts warn it will become hopeless and dangerous if we don’t act immediately.”

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