Arco-coöperanten set or age in the absence

Because the government-Michel, its promise has not lived up to the Arco-coöperanten to compensate, set the lawyer Geert Lenssens of the Brussels office SQ Law in the name of 5,000 of the nearly 800,000 victims, the government parties is in default. That tells you The Time today.

It comes to the MR, CD&V, Open Vld and N-VA, which is no longer part of the government-Michel. Lenssens says to the newspaper the information to be able to "confirm or deny".

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As a major shareholder was Arco swept up in the collapse of Dexia in the aftermath of the banking crisis. The nearly 800,000 cooperative shareholders saw their investment go up in smoke.

Bad news for CD&V

By the notice of default is the file on a sigh of elections again at the top of the political agenda. That is especially bad news for CD&V, which in its election programme with not a word more, according to about Arco. CD&V deputy prime minister Kris Peeters had at the end of april is still raised as the defender of the Arco-coöperanten, that of the government-Leterme, the guarantee had been given that they their money would see again. Nevertheless, it seemed to be CD&V hair loss in that file to have caught.

It could be the politics in our country a fundamental change if a judge ruled that political parties be liable for non-kept promises, writes The Time. The idea is nevertheless interesting, it opens perspectives. But it is very doubtful whether the action of Lenssens legally only chance, according to the newspaper.