No road sticker after all
Flemish Minister-president Yves Leterme met with Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende on Monday. There is little chance that a road sticker will be introduced in Flanders.
Flanders has for years been preparing plans for the introduction of a traffic road in consultation with the other regions. Motorists would be required to pay (for example EUR 60 a year) for the use of the road infrastructure. The plan was also included in the Flemish coalition agreement.
The plan would not cost Belgians anything extra as they would be refunded the cost of the sticker in their car tax. The main focus was to get a contribution for road infrastructure from foreign drivers and others who use the roads but do not pay road tax.
The introduction of the sticker was then postponed to 2009, but it looks now as if it will be scrapped altogether. Leterme pointed out that Europe does not think that the road sticker is the best approach to the issue.
Read full story: Expatica Belgium, 27 March 2007
