Opinion pieces
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Fiscal gap increases to € 6 200 per household (NL)
De fiscale kloof met de buurlanden bestaat echt en is fors gegroeid – zelfs bijna verdubbeld - sinds 2002. Illustreert deze evolutie de systematische keuze voor de makkelijkste weg of zijn er andere structurele verklaringen?
New Year's wishes for 2014 election year
Marc De Vos offers six policy wishes for the election year 2014 and appeals for elected politicians who dare to make choices.
All to Google Bank?
For many years one has speculated on Google establishing itself as a bank. Banks are transforming themselves more than ever in an IT system connected to a marketing machine. It is not surprising that competition from a company as Google is looked at with special interest.
Less automatic increases, more pay for work
Marc De Vos supports the idea that young workers should earn more, earlier in their careers, but warns that the reverse is needed for those who are at a later stage of their careers. If we do it right all generations and social security can benefit.
Eliminating subordination of new Belgians is about more than fighting discrimination
Discrimination forms an explanation for the disadvantaged situation of many new Belgians, but it is far from the only one. Eliminating the subordination does not end, but begins with fighting discrimination..
Community service for the unemployed
For the third time in a few years community service for the unemployed was recently proposed again. Superficial evaluations of these experiments abroad often indicate a reduction in the number of benefit recipients.