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标题[新闻] Belgian Lawmakers Reach Deal to Form Government
时间Tue Mar 18 20:54:45 2008
标题:Belgian Lawmakers Reach Deal to Form Government
新闻来源:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,542154,00.html
(需有正确连结)
AFTER NINE MONTHS OF CRISIS
Belgian Lawmakers Reach Deal to Form Government
在九个月的危机之後
比利时国会议员达成协议组成政府
A dispute that pitted Belgium's French- and Dutch-speaking factions against
each other and threatened to break the country apart is over. Lawmakers have
struck a deal to form a new government under the leadership of the Flemish
Christian Democrats' Yves Leterme.
Lawmakers in Belgium announced Tuesday that they had arrived at a deal to
form a new national government, ending a nine-month political dispute that
threatened to break the country apart.
According to a plan forged during all-night negotiations, the new government
will be sworn in Thursday with Yves Leterme, a Flemish Christian Democrat, as
Prime Minister. Leterme, whose party won national elections last June,
announced the deal on VRT radio.
"I can confirm that the five parties ... have reached a government deal which
includes a lot of concrete measures," he said.
The agreement follows a heated dispute that began last fall over
constitutional reform meant to delegate more powers to the country's
Dutch-speaking Flemings and Francophone Walloons. The crisis raised
widespread fears that the nation's two linguistic halves no longer shared the
same vision or goals, and that Belgium might dissolve (more...).
Leterme's post-election efforts to form a government collapsed in December
after he failed to get Francophone parties to commit to shifting more powers
to Flanders and Wallonia. French-speakers fear that devolution would cut
funding to Wallonia, the country's poorer Francophone southern region, and
from the bilingual capital Brussels. To ease tensions, King Albert asked
interim Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt to stay on (more...) as premier until
March despite his party losing elections last year.
During Verhofstadt's interim government a majority of Belgian political
groups agreed to allow limited constitutional reform, opening the door for
Leterme to form his government.
The coalition plan unveiled Tuesday does not include any mention of
constitutional reform, according to the Associated Press. That issue will
continue to be handled by a special panel of lawmakers. The plan makes vague
promises to toughen immigration policy, cut taxes and boost pension benefits
amid worries the country is headed for an economic slump.
Power is scheduled to be transferred from Verhofstadt to Leterme on Thursday
after the country's five coalition parties and parliament lawmakers approve
the new government.
The Flemish Christian Democratic Party was the clear winner in national
elections last June, but Leterme will have to rely on the Francophone Liberal
Democrats, Socialists and Christian Democrats for support in the coalition.
The only other Flemish party to join the coalition will be Verhofstadt's
Liberal Democrats.
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1F:→ nplnt:比利时的危机终於要解除了 03/18 21:37
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