Caruur Gent is hopeful for the clash against Tectum Achel, but also realistic: “Even without their playmaker, they remain a top team”

It’s a crisis, right? Deadline after deadline is missed around the budget. The parties are digging themselves deeper and deeper into their own trenches. And De Wever’s cat appears on Instagram with “All by myself” in the background. Will they get out of here? “The strange thing is that there is no crisis atmosphere,” says our political podcast Het Punt van Van Impe. “No party is really putting pressure on the government to fall, and that is why they are just muddling along.” Also in this episode: Vlaams Belang’s “total war against the left” and Alexander De Croo’s dream job.