2023-11-29 07:49:00
For the first subject of the show, Maxime Binet questioned Olivier Willocx on the increase in temperatures in Brussels, up to plus 4 degrees by 2100, and the actions of companies in relation to this phenomenon: “I think that emissions in Brussels have been trending downward for 30 years because a large part of the industry has left for China. The real debate we are having today is how to maintain industrialization in Belgium, more than in Brussels, to ensure that we do not pay for things produced with coal in China, transported in boats to get here”.
“We have to ask ourselves the question of the model we want” then explained the managing director on the subject of “pauses” for the adoption of European Green deal legislation, requested in particular by Alexander De Croo. Is the Paris Agreement respected? According to Olivier Willocx “There are announcement effects for which we don’t really know how we’re going to go about it. We want minus 40% very well, but how do we get there? What’s the plan? The plan is not there. We are making commitment effects and not plan effects” deplores the representative of Brussels businesses.
“Brussels administrations are gas factories”
Maxime Binet then questioned Olivier Willocx about his recent statement: “Brussels bosses fear the bankruptcy of their region”. Why release such a sentence a few months before the elections? “The problem is getting worse and we are maintaining all personnel costs of all administrations as if they were not in a difficult situation” explains the managing director of Beci before continuing: “revenues are falling, particularly on real estate income and we continue to spend even more than before […] There is no perspective today”.
Sven Gatz, Minister of Finance and Budgets of the Brussels region, recently affirmed that significant investments were made by the previous legislature for the region in terms of infrastructure and mobility, to which Olivier Willocx responded: “A- Did he read his budget?” before continuing: “It is not the investments which are weighing down the budget, it is the personnel investments which have only exploded the budget. Teleworking today in public administration […] It doesn’t work at all, it’s a disaster.” The Brussels administration is not working? “It’s a gas factory” replies the managing director of Beci.
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