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Given the seriousness of the budget situation and the evolution of financial markets, a scenario of provisional twelfths is not an option. The Prime Minister will not accept it. The Belgian state budget for 2027 will not be presented to Parliament on Tuesday as planned due to disagreements within the coalition led by Prime Minister Bart De Wever, who has warned about the "seriousness" of the situation. #Belgique #Budgets #Politique (translated)

Actu Foot reported, citing L’Équipe, that a scout from a European club was questioning the role given to Mika Godts at PSG. According to this scout, recruited for €55 million, the Belgian player had only played 144 minutes in six matches, without being in the starting lineup. He felt that Godts sometimes struggled during matches, was less influential, and directed his play less towards scoring and effectiveness. He doubted that PSG would find a place for him, recalling that Gonçalo Ramos, whom he considered a European-level number 9, had not been able to make a lasting impact in Paris. He was not sure that Godts would escape the same scenario. #PSG #MikaGodts #Football (translated)

"We cannot continuously introduce new budget flexibilities," the EU Commissioner for Economy, Valdis Dombrovskis, stated yesterday, emphasizing the need to maintain "fiscal prudence" in light of an uncertain scenario and the performance of the bond market. #FlessibilitàUE #Inflazione #PattoDiStabilità (translated)

After the discovery of 3900 kilos of cocaine and the arrest of Jan G., who is referred to as 'Maestro', strict security measures have been implemented around a transport company in Dordrecht due to fears of a 'second Overasselt' scenario. #JanG #Cocaïnehandel #OrganisedCrime (translated)

Bally Bagayoko wrote that Retailleau wanted to ban LFI and that Éric Ciotti was calling for his dismissal. He wondered if the possibility, which he believed was growing every day, that LFI would thwart their scenarios for 2027 was putting them in such a panic. #LFI #politique #2027 (translated)

Mirko Nicolino described the scenario of the FIGC after the president of CONI, Buonfiglio, opened the door: according to him, Malagò would have been appointed as commissioner and would then have checked if there was a majority to return to the presidency. Nicolino noted that, in this hypothesis, Malagò would have been commissioner of himself, adding that there were also those who applauded the situation. #FIGC #CONI #Malagò (translated)

The post’s author said India’s 2026 monsoon was the worst since 2015, with rainfall from June to September ending around 12.6% below normal. They wrote that conditions remained far from a disaster scenario like 2009, although some major agricultural regions had deficits of around 30/40%. https://t.co/NP1ub8Ihb7 #Monsoon2026 #India #Agriculture #IN (translated)

Christian Ricchiuti wrote that, with Giorgia Meloni, Italy was going through a political phase aimed at strengthening its international role. He said that the government had sought to define a recognizable line in relations with European and Atlantic partners and on major global issues. On the domestic front, he pointed to reforms, investments, and economic interventions as concrete evidence of government action, adding that the results and effects on the lives of Italians would determine the meaning of the phrase "We are making history." #PoliticaItaliana #Governo #Riforme (translated)

Carine Knapen wrote that Belgium, the Netherlands, France, and Germany are, in her opinion, struggling with serious domestic crises, rising debts, higher taxes, unaffordable prices, and deindustrialization, while deliberately billions continue to flow to a country outside the EU. #crisis #schuld #deindustrialiseerder (translated)

Hester Bais wrote that in March 2023 she had gifted her book *Worst Bank Scenario* to current and former members of the House of Representatives, all members of the Senate, and a large part of the cabinet. In the book, she described her experiences as a lawyer and whistleblower regarding what she called the largest banking and pension fraud ever. She stated that she had not received any substantive response. Bais claimed that she was one of the few specialists in the Netherlands with legal and operational knowledge of central securities clearing, derivatives clearing, and collateral management. She said she had worked for years at ING, the Authority for the Financial Markets, Euronext, LCH, Euroclear, and Hogan Lovells. According to her, that experience had enabled her to expose extensive fraud involving collateral. She wrote that the Netherlands needed her expertise in a European financial sector where investment banks, according to her, called the shots and used taxpayer money and pension assets for their own liquidity purposes. According to Bais, the Authority for the Financial Markets ignored her whistleblower reports. She also said that she had become persona non grata in her field. She mentioned Sander Dekker from the VVD as the chairman of the supervisory board and wrote that he looked away, just like his predecessors Paul Rosenmöller and Martin van Rijn. #klokkenluider #advocaat #RedDeRechtstaat #klokkenluider #advocaat #fraude (translated)