At last a new government in Brussels thanks to the MR BRUSSELS WINS!

1. General

This agreement is not an agreement for additional spending. It is a recovery agreement for a capital that had become ungovernable after years of piled-up regulations, uncontrolled spending and administrative gridlock.

The thread running through the entire Regional Policy Statement is clear:

• Getting Brussels back to work, putting the Region back in order, restoring authority and once again viewing mobility as a driver of economic development.
• The common thread is clearly liberal: responsibility, work, attractiveness, authority, simplification.

2. Public finances: management before promises

• For the first time, the Region is committing to a credible path towards a balanced budget by 2029, with €1 billion in savings.
• 80% of the effort comes from structural spending control and 20% from optimising tax revenue.
• In other words, the government acknowledges that Brussels can no longer finance its policies through debt.
• A permanent monitoring committee will oversee budgetary drift, and the recommendations of the Court of Auditors will have to be implemented.
• At the same time, the tax burden will gradually decrease: lower personal income tax, a reduction in property tax via the BE HOME premium, and an increase in the property tax allowance.
• We are moving from a model where the Region promises first and finances afterwards to a model where the Region manages first in order to then lower taxation.
• This is the concrete expression of the liberal principle: no lasting prosperity without sound public finances.

3. Mobility: the end of the punitive model

• The agreement explicitly abandons the logic of the Good Move plan and replaces it with a plan based on smooth traffic flow, economic accessibility and social acceptability.
• Mobility is no longer seen as a tool for restriction but as a condition for urban life.
• The metro 3 project is being suspended for financial reassessment and replaced, on certain sections, by a sustainable tram solution.
• The LEZ is being socially adjusted, with exceptions and proportionate penalties: no more social punishment.
• Traffic plans will need to be adapted neighbourhood by neighbourhood, with citizen consultation.
• We are moving away from an ideological view of mobility towards a pragmatic one: the transition must be acceptable to citizens and compatible with economic activity.

4. Administrative simplification: modernising the Brussels Region

• The agreement explicitly acknowledges that Brussels' institutional complexity hampers public efficiency.
• The response is a thorough restructuring of the administration into four hubs and the creation of a public infrastructure company.
• The “only once” principle will be introduced, the right to make mistakes recognised, and unnecessary procedures scrapped.
• Fewer structures, fewer procedures, more responsibility.
• This is the core liberal idea: an efficient state protects better than an oversized one.

5. Employment: rights and duties

• The goal is clear: achieve a 70% employment rate and a genuine regional tax shift to make work pay again.
• To achieve this, support becomes immediate and mandatory: intervention from the first month, a language test, mandatory training in case of failure, and a single file shared between Actiris and the CPAS.
• Long-term sick people fit for work will have to follow a return-to-work pathway.
• Social policy is changing philosophy: support is no longer an end in itself but a path to independence. Solidarity yes, dependency no.

6. Housing and urban planning: build rather than ban

• The housing crisis is recognised as a supply crisis.
• The agreement provides for access to home ownership through new financial tools, the mobilisation of private housing stock, and the conversion of offices into homes.
• The most important reform concerns permits: deadlines halved, appeals simplified, and an integrated planning-environment permit.
• A fast-track regularisation procedure will be put in place until 2029.
• Housing policy stops being a control policy and becomes a production policy with a clear goal and better governance. Building more to bring prices down, rather than regulating more and more.

7. Security: embracing the return of order

• The Region is creating an anti-drug commissioner who will coordinate enforcement, prevention and healthcare.
• Crime-prone businesses can be shut down administratively and cameras centralised with the federal police.
• The agreement provides for strengthened community policing and the fire brigade (SIAMU).
• A €10 million plan to secure stations will be implemented.
• Security is becoming an absolute political priority: individual freedom requires guaranteed public order. Insecurity in Brussels is over.

8. Economy: becoming a productive capital again

• The creation of an industrial free zone on the Audi site and at the Port of Brussels combines tax incentives, an administrative fast-track and targeted training.
• Economic support will shift towards financing rather than subsidies, and technological innovation will be supported. Brussels must become the AI capital.
• Economic redeployment also relies on the strategic strengthening of Brussels' academic hubs, which must become a central lever for innovation, applied research and technology transfer to businesses.
• The Region is changing its model: it is no longer content to redistribute wealth, it wants to produce it.

9. Climate: towards greater efficiency

• The priority becomes building insulation, which accounts for the majority of emissions.
• The transition relies on private innovation and investment rather than compulsion.
• An ecology of results, not of bans.

10. Social & health

• The agreement clearly refocuses social policy on frontline care: community health centres, multidisciplinary teams and mobile services such as medibuses to intervene directly in neighbourhoods and avoid hospital overload.
• The approach becomes territorial, with neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood action to reach people who do not use existing services.
• Prevention is prioritised, particularly in mental health, integrated into social and community policies to act before impoverishment or social breakdown occurs.
• The aim is to coordinate social affairs, housing and care to address complex situations rather than merely managing emergencies.
• Investing in frontline care and mental health to reduce reliance on heavy structures and improve people's independence.

11. Cleanliness

• The agreement makes cleanliness a priority for quality of life. We are reforming Bruxelles-Propreté to make it more operational: collection adapted to real needs, modernisation through underground containers and digital tools, and the creation of rapid-response units to deal immediately with problem situations.
• Above all, the approach is changing with a clear strengthening of the enforcement side: regional brigades working with municipalities and the police, smart cameras, immediate fine collection and systematic penalties for illegal dumping.
• Cleanliness is no longer solely a matter of awareness-raising but becomes a public-order policy; individual responsibility and effective sanctions to guarantee a respected public space.

Conclusion

• This agreement marks a profound paradigm shift for Brussels. The Region is moving:
• from a logic of redistribution to a logic of wealth creation
• from a logic of assistance to a logic of emancipation
• In short: responsible management, work, economic attractiveness and administrative simplification become the foundation of Brussels' public action, thanks to the MR's return to government.