The flemish minister-president Jan Jambon (N-VA) has launched a proposal surprising Saturday in the framework of the negotiations for the formation of a federal government. It suggests, for example, in Het Nieuwsblad, to distribute a series of ministerial portfolios between a minister of the flemish and a minister is French-speaking.
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“The flemish minister of Employment (within the federal government, editor’s NOTE) would then work in close collaboration with his colleague, the minister of Employment in the flemish government”, says Jan Ham in an interview with the flemish newspaper on the occasion of the feast of the flemish Community. “Together, they would then be responsible for a tailor-made policy for Flanders.”
