Now, Brussels can act.

The DPR targets a 70% employment rate by the end of the term, while the real structural rate is around 55% (Itinera data). In August 2026 the Region counted 99,458 registered jobseekers and an administrative unemployment rate of 16.0%, the highest since December 2020. The federal unemployment reform is shifting the burden to the CPAS: 34,830 jobseekers are registered with one, 35% of the total, up 82.6% year on year.

A new regional mobility plan is to succeed Good Move. Metro 3 is frozen for ten years in favour of a tram, at a total cost put at 4.76 billion euros by the Court of Audit. The LEZ stays. The second car-free day is set for Sunday 2 May 2027. The Region has around one hundred and thirty cycle streets, against some sixty in 2021. Shared bikes run under a transitional regime capped at 7,500 units until May 2028.

Regional attractiveness is absorbing an austerity shock. Visit.brussels sees its grants cut from 22 to 12.5 million euros by 2029, with 37 voluntary departures out of 159 and both tourist welcome offices closed. Hub.brussels is closing 14 of its 33 offices abroad. Five regional operating grants are frozen for 2026. The net balance of employer business set-ups turned positive in 2024, for the first time since 2008.

Restructuring of the regional administration: twenty-five bodies merged into four pillars, the first two targeted for 2026, with a goal of 20 to 30% savings on running costs. First-reading decree on 5 March 2026. The redistribution of board seats across regional bodies was completed at the end of July 2026, fourteen chairs allocated out of some one hundred and fifty mandates. The 15.7 million euro annual water grant to the municipalities is abolished and reallocated to Vivaqua.