The Belgian Senate: little damage, little use

From a Belgian point of view, even after the deepest reform the Senate has known (2011-2014), the issue of the Senate reform has never really been bicameralism per se. When political parties talked about Senate reform they had less bicameralism as such in mind but saving public expenditures. That being said, we may not totally reject an attempt to reduce the federal character of the country. Indeed, we may hypothesise that some political parties try to target a symbol of the – still young – Belgian federal organisation http://www.verfassungsblog.de/belgian-senate-little-damage-little-use/#... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Van Wynsberghe, Caroline
Dokumenttyp: workingPaper
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Schlagwörter: Senate / Federalism / Belgium / Bicameralism
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26981968
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/156640

From a Belgian point of view, even after the deepest reform the Senate has known (2011-2014), the issue of the Senate reform has never really been bicameralism per se. When political parties talked about Senate reform they had less bicameralism as such in mind but saving public expenditures. That being said, we may not totally reject an attempt to reduce the federal character of the country. Indeed, we may hypothesise that some political parties try to target a symbol of the – still young – Belgian federal organisation http://www.verfassungsblog.de/belgian-senate-little-damage-little-use/#.VNyFePmG__E