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Caroline Van Wynsberghe

29/04/2013

Brussels and Washington: two federal capital cities with two similar metropolitan experiences?

This article follows a comparative study mission. It shows that the metropolitan development of Brussels is clearly atypical when compared to the literature or the example of Washington, DC. It falls within the scope of Belgian mechanisms of compromise rather than the implementation of classic models of metropolitan cooperation, which often emphasise the voluntary involvement of the different stakeholders. In the case of Brussels, the metropolitan reality was imposed ‘from above’, even if it was claimed by some of the partners of the state reform. Contrary to Washington, there are no incentives planned by the federal authorities. The Brussels metropolitan community is also unique because this structure is not applicable to ...

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Magali Verdonck Michèle Taymans Nathalie Van Droogenbroeck

05/03/2011

Are the municipalities of Brussels 
guilty of wasteful spending? 
A comparative analysis of the budgets 
of Belgium’s main urban municipalities

The municipalities of Brussels are often accused of being a source of financial chaos and of requiring urgent reforms. The present article attempts to objectivise the question of relative wasteful spending by the municipalities of Brussels based on a comparison of the finances of the 19 municipalities of Brussels with those of the municipalities of the four other major urban entities in Belgium: Antwerp, Charleroi, Ghent and Liege.?Our methodology does not allow us to affirm that the services of the municipalities of Brussels could not be provided more efficiently. It does, however, allow us to affirm that in the case of excessive spending by the municipalities of Brussels, it would not be more than that of the other entities studied, ...

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Pol Zimmer Philippe Cattoir Joost Vaesen Géraldine Van der Stichele Magali Verdonck

03/03/2009

Public finances, financing 
and taxation in Brussels

Citizens' forum of Brussels - Synopsis "public finances"

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