比利时联邦预算谈判再陷僵局：100亿欧元目标未达成，首相警告「黑暗之墙」
据比利时 RTBF 与《晚报》（Le Soir）报道，比利时联邦政府的预算谈判再次陷入僵局。首相 Bart De Wever 召集的限制委员会（kern）10月20日晚7时开始审议他当天上午提出的新预算案，会议一直开到10月21日凌晨0时30分结束，各党领袖一致认为工作进展不足、无法深入讨论最新提案。De Wever 随后只能与各位副首相分别进行双边磋商，新的限制委员会定于21日晚再次召开。各方目标仍是在22日周四上午前就100亿欧元的预算努力达成协议。
分歧集中在税收上。副首相、改革运动党（MR）的 David Clarinval 表示，各方立场仍然相距甚远，预算案中仍有太多损害竞争力的税收，其规模必须削减。亲法语社会党（PS）领袖 Paul Magnette 批评 De Wever 的说法「总是同一套说辞」；左翼政党则敦促政府向最富有者、大型财富与石油公司筹集资金。
De Wever 21日上午在众议院委员会发言时没有透露谈判内容，但再次描绘了国家财政压力的严峻图景，称比利时正面对一堵「黑暗之墙」，并表示谈判已进入「加时阶段」，只能希望多数党克服分歧达成协议。若政府无法达成协议，明年可能被迫按「临时十二分之一」机制运行，De Wever 已明确排除这一选项，并表示届时将提出「债务刹车」方案，冻结养老金、公务员薪酬、各类津贴、国家运营预算与税率档次的指数化调整。（据 RTBF、《晚报》10月21日报道，经 Pollar 汇总整理）
Belgian Budget Talks Stall Again Over 10 Billion Euro Target as Prime Minister De Wever Warns of a 'Wall of Darkness'
Belgium's federal budget negotiations have stalled again, according to RTBF and Le Soir. The restricted committee, known as the kern, convened by Prime Minister Bart De Wever on Tuesday evening, October 20, to examine a new budget note he had tabled that morning, finished at 00:30 on Wednesday, October 21, with leaders agreeing that work had not advanced far enough to discuss the latest proposal in depth. De Wever then had to settle for bilateral consultations with the deputy prime ministers, with a new kern scheduled for Wednesday evening. The partners still aim to agree on a 10 billion euro budget effort by Thursday morning, October 22.
The coalition is divided over taxes. Vice-Prime Minister David Clarinval of the MR said positions remained very far apart and argued that the budget table still contains too many anticompetitive taxes, whose volume must fall. Paul Magnette of the PS criticised De Wever's approach as 'always the same speech,' while left-wing parties urged the government to find the money among the wealthiest, large fortunes and oil companies recording windfall profits.
Speaking in a Chamber committee on Wednesday morning, De Wever did not go into the content of the talks but again painted a bleak picture of the financial pressure on the country, warning of what he called a 'wall of darkness' and saying the talks were in 'stoppage time.' If the government fails to agree, it risks starting next year under the provisional twelfths regime, a prospect De Wever has ruled out; in that case he would propose a 'schuldenrem,' a debt brake that would freeze the indexation of pensions, civil servants' pay, allowances, state operating budgets and tax scales. (Compiled from RTBF and Le Soir, October 21, via Pollar)
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