RECONSTRUCTION. “And then De Croo’s house of cards collapsed”

If the PS did not want to save on an extra increase in teachers’ pensions, they could also blame the increase in the securities tax, Prime Minister De Croo thought. On the final budget night, things clashed between him and PS Deputy Prime Minister Dermagne. “And the fact that Conner Rousseau was saying on the radio before we even had an agreement that the housing bonus for the second home would be abolished, worked like a red rag to the blue MR bull.”

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