Thanks to the cooperation between two central banks, some masterpieces from the contemporary art collection of Banco de España will be showcased on Belgian soil for the first time ever jointly with ...

One of the National Bank’s core tasks is to ensure that the Belgian financial system can weather challenges without putting in jeopardy its main economic functions. You can read about how stable the ...

House prices have increased very strongly in the first COVID year and this increase was not driven by changes in the quality of the property sold. Turning to the longer term, the energy quality of ...

Brussels, August 2020 – Belgian firms estimate that their turnover is currently still 13 % below normal levels. This is certainly an improvement on the situation at the end of June (+4 percentage ...

The fight against the Covid-19 pandemic has necessitated unparalleled health measures, with whole swathes of the Belgian economy halted and restrictive measures imposed on the population, and normal ...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures that have been taken to curb the virus’s spread have had a huge impact on the Belgian economy. This article first and foremost takes stock of the ...

International institutions consider risks to the sustainability of Belgian public finances as “high”. But what is the debt outlook for the federal government, the regions and the communities within ...

In order to tackle procyclicality in the financial system, prudential authorities have an efficient tool at their disposal: the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB). This is a temporary buffer that ...

In June 2019, the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) decided to activate the CCyB. However, the global economy is now facing important challenges, and the NBB does not expect the impact of the coronavirus ...

The new European fiscal framework tightens up Belgium’s fiscal policy targets. This is urgently required. Indeed, according to the Federal Planning Bureau (FPB), were fiscal policy to remain unchanged ...

In many advanced economies, public debt has been flirting with historic highs or even exceeded them, while interest rates have remained historically low, raising deep questions about the actual risks ...

Thanks to a solid starting position, the Belgian financial sector was able to complement public support measures for severely affected companies and households with payment deferrals for current loans ...