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The federal and Brussels negotiations: a positive dynamic for everyone's future

16/08/2024
In brief

The federal and Brussels negotiations are progressing in a constructive climate towards a comprehensive, balanced agreement. The MR advocates simplifying structures and a new socio-economic dynamic, and condemns media speculation about working notes.

The ongoing negotiations to form the federal and Brussels governments are progressing in a constructive climate, with the general interest of citizens as the priority. The MR President stressed that working documents are constantly evolving and that an agreement can only be reached once an overall balance is achieved, not by negotiating isolated parts. Finding an overall balance remains the absolute priority.

He constantly stresses the importance of these essential reforms to modernise our country. Real reforms! Simplifying government structures while also injecting a new socio-economic dynamic, for the benefit of all citizens.

We continue to play a central role in these discussions, proving our determination to see the emergence of a stable, reform-minded government capable of tackling today's challenges.

And he concludes, addressing the press more specifically: All the “information” in the press about the content of a working note is simply ridiculous. These are working documents that are bound to evolve, and the agreement can only be about the whole or nothing at all. The aim is to find an overall balance. This merely allows journalists to fill their pages, but it is in no way genuine information. Could we be allowed to work and have only real information commented on, rather than the many existing hypotheses? The press, which lectures us endlessly about a healthy democracy and the general interest, should apply these great principles themselves instead of constantly stirring things up based on leaks from people lacking publicity or simply intelligence. Success will lie in the discretion of the negotiation.

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