Transparency index of political parties in 2016

BRUSSELS - Due to the banking crisis the Belgian government had to bail out 4 major financial institutions in 2008 and 2009 to prevent them from bankruptcy. Fortis, KBC, Dexia and Ethias initially received more than 20 billion of tax payers' money which they will have to reimburse eventually. But which role does the government play in the meantime now that it acquired seats as an important stakeholder in the governing boards of these banks?

BRUSSEL - De Raad van State vernietigde een beslissing van de Vlaamse overheid die Apache aanvocht. De Vlaamse overheid weigert onterecht om een lijst van leveranciers vrij te geven die onder eigen naam handel dreven met het kabinet van voormalig minister-president Geert Bourgeois (N-VA).

BRUSSELS - In the Netherlands, it has been possible for years: a visit to the Nationaal Archief (National Archive) to find out what your grandfather or grandmother's wartime past was. In Belgium, however, these archives remain closed, for fear that 'certain passions' will flare up. Anoek Nuyens and Lynn Berger on the struggle of historians and archivists for more openness.