Mayor urges students back to class after 33 arrests in Liege
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A student protest in Liege ended with two judicial arrests, 31 administrative ones, and several injured police officers. The mayor has suggested the students return to their classrooms.
In Brussels, Finance Minister Dirk De Smedt has abandoned his plan to freeze civil servant salaries, while Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s proposal to trade VAT reform for higher net pay is being blocked by his coalition partners. The government’s previous attempt at generosity—a temporary energy subsidy—was found to have reached fewer than 1% of the employees it was meant to help.
The trial of the Ullens family has been suspended to allow for sentencing requests and defense arguments. Meanwhile, scholarship students are facing new requirements to double their study credits, a move critics say will create social dramas rather than better grades.