The Mouvement Réformateur Council calls for the creation of a parliamentary committee to draw lessons from the nuclear phase-out decided more than twenty years ago, identify political responsibilities and formulate recommendations to ensure such mistakes are never repeated.
On 29 April 2026, the Arizona government took a decisive step for Belgium's energy future by announcing the halt of the dismantling process and its irrevocable commitment to restarting nuclear power. This historic decision corrects a historic mistake. The MR promised it. The MR delivered it.
This strategic shift marks the definitive collapse of a dogmatic energy model imposed by the Greens since 1999, when the nuclear phase-out was first enacted under pressure from Ecolo.
The MR Council officially calls for the establishment of a special parliamentary committee on the nuclear phase-out, with the following mandates:
Reconstruct the chronology of political decisions since the law of 31 January 2003, through the revisions of 2013 and 2015, up to the negotiations of the Vivaldi legislature.
Assess the economic, social and environmental impact of the nuclear phase-out policy on households, businesses and Belgian public finances.
Identify the political responsibility of decision-makers who maintained, promoted or accelerated this course despite repeated warnings from experts and industry stakeholders.
Formulate structural recommendations so that decisions with such far-reaching consequences for the country's future can no longer be taken under the sway of ideological dogma, without a serious assessment of long-term impacts.
The parliamentary committee must also put forward clear proposals to strengthen our energy sovereignty and analyse the various pillars of sovereignty (networks, gas and oil supplies, renewable and nuclear energy) and the industrial sectors that make it possible to build it.
The MR firmly reaffirms its energy vision: nuclear power is an essential pillar of Belgium's energy mix. As a low-carbon, dispatchable and competitive energy source that guarantees our sovereignty, it must go hand in hand with the development of renewable energy to meet climate challenges and ensure our economy's competitiveness.
It is time for Belgium to look clearly at past mistakes in order to better build its energy future. The parliamentary committee the MR calls for is a duty of transparency towards Belgian citizens.