Theme

Democracy & Good Governance

In een wereld waarin de democratie steeds meer bedreigd wordt, kijkt Itinera er nauwlettend op toe dat individuele rechten en vrijheden standhouden. Een betrouwbaar rechtssysteem is de basis, vertrouwen in de politiek moet de ambitie zijn van de overheid. Door te focussen op haar kerntaken, zorgvuldig om te springen met belastinggeld en rekenschap af te leggen.

Report

De Itinera Brainstorm

The Itinera Brainstorm is an open reflection on social reforms by politicians, academics and stakeholders. With these new ideas we hope to keep, also in 2012, the debate alive in Belgium and its regions. More than 50 participants, more than 100 ideas!

14/03/2012

Marc De Vos

Public Finance

Report

The 2012 budgetary control is not the end, just the beginning

Also between 2013 and 2015 the budgetary measures of the government agreement will not come up to the mark.

02/03/2012

Ivan Van de Cloot

Public Finance

Opinion piece

Governance European member states needs improvement

Only citizen initiatives can bring a new political culture. Therefore the problem of collective action needs to be overcome which is of no use when an individual citizen reacts against clientism while his fellow citizens are making use of it.

29/02/2012

Ivan Van de Cloot

Public Finance

Opinion piece

Civil servants: the story behind the numbers

Laurent Hanseeuw and Jean Hindriks discuss the current issue of the number and wages of civil servants. Beyond the budgetary aspect, the growing discrimination taking place between civil servants working under contracts and those enjoying statutory positions, should be reviewed.

27/02/2012

Jean Hindriks

Public Finance

Opinion piece

For technocratic politics

Marc De Vos illustrates the differences in political culture between Belgium and the Netherlands and remarks how the results are visible. He argues against political technocrats and for technocratic politics.

22/02/2012

Marc De Vos

Public Finance

Opinion piece

Euro-policy in the balance: too little, but not (yet) too late

01/02/2012

Marc De Vos

Public Finance

Opinion piece

Belgium divided between strike and anti-strike

Jean Hindriks and Laurent Hanseeuw shed lights on the popular opposition against the general strike taking place this Monday 30 January. They explain the apparent paradox stating that powerful labor unions can be useful safeguard against inopportune strikes.

31/01/2012

Jean Hindriks

Public Finance

Opinion piece

Why our public debt needs to be reduced

Marc De Vos and Ivan Van de Cloot explain why the Belgian public debt is problematic. We will over many years, unfortunately, have to pay the debt bill of the past in order to build the future.

27/01/2012

Marc De Vos

Public Finance

Opinion piece

Hooray for the European criticism!

The intervention of the European commission is to be considered a sign of progress on the road towards European integration and a positive consequence of the current crisis.

27/01/2012

Etienne de Callataÿ

Public Finance

Society

Prosperity