Le Monde.fr The federal government remains generous, with a model based on redistribution, advantageous unemployment and wages and pensions indexed to inflation. But the public debt and deficit are worsening, undermining the system’s sustainability.
A surprising conversation was overheard in a bar in the Châtelain neighborhood, the haunt of many French people in Brussels. “These Belgians are incredible, with their unemployment benefits not limited in time and their wages indexed: How do they do it?” Is Belgium a social paradise? It’s not always a paradise for labor organizing, in any case: The country was the European champion for strikes between 2011 and 2020, with 97 days per year per 1,000 workers – compared with 93 in France, 18 in Germany and one in Switzerland – according to a study published in January by the Hans-Böckler Foundation.
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