After 23 meetings of the special Metro 3 committee, the findings of Amélie Pans and Clémentine Barzin, MR MPs, are damning: biased studies, fragmented governance, works launched too early and a budget that multiplied fivefold, from €1.7 to €4.7 billion, without anyone raising the alarm.
To ensure this never happens again, the two MPs have prepared two resolutions introducing concrete safeguards: the first imposes a budgetary “alarm bell”, requiring the minister to be informed as soon as a 30% overrun of the initial budget is recorded, and Parliament to be involved beyond 50%; the second guarantees strict independence between those who assess a project's feasibility and those who implement it, because you cannot be judge and party when it comes to public money.
The goal is not to abandon major projects, but to give the Region the tools to carry them out successfully, respecting every euro of Brussels residents' money.