The accumulation of situations having negative consequences for Walloon finances makes the exercise particularly perilous. But other concerns await the government on the budgetary level. The pandemic and then the floods have already plunged Walloon finances a little further and for the debt to remain sustainable, new structural savings measures are essential.
For Elio Di Rupo there is a fixed frame: “With the Covid crisis and the floods and then the consequences of the war in Ukraine, we spent ten billion euros and the annual revenue of the Region’s budget is 16 billion, which makes it possible to measure the extent of what has already been done, but we must try to relieve citizens and businesses within the framework imposed on us”.
Where can we still recover resources without creating major difficulties elsewhere? The adjustment of this year’s budget and the preparation of next year’s will undoubtedly be a source of tension within the PS-MR-Ecolo coalition.