{"id":309772,"date":"2026-11-02T12:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=309772"},"modified":"2026-11-02T13:22:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T09:22:28","slug":"belgiums-pm-to-offer-resignation-after-budget-talks-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/309772\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium&#8217;s PM to offer resignation after budget talks fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The Belgian national debt amounts to over &euro;735 billion, more than 110% of Belgium&rsquo;s GDP, while 60% is permitted by the EU, <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.euronews.com\/2026\/11\/02\/belgiums-pm-bart-de-wever-to-offer-resignation-to-king-after-overnight-budget-talks-fail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium&rsquo;s Prime Minister Bart De Wever will offer his government&rsquo;s resignation to King Philippe on Monday following failed overnight budget talks, local media are reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The government must save &euro;10 billion to stay within EU spending limits.<\/p>\n<p>The budget deficit amounted to 5% last year, while a deficit of a maximum of 3% is permitted under European rules. Due to the failure to reach an agreement, interest rates on government bonds have increased, and Belgium has to pay more to meet its debt obligations.<\/p>\n<p>If the King accepts his resignation, new elections will be called. The King may also refuse the resignation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belgian national debt amounts to over &euro;735 billion, more than 110% of Belgium&rsquo;s GDP, while 60% is permitted by the EU, Euronews reports. Belgium&rsquo;s Prime Minister Bart De Wever will offer his government&rsquo;s resignation to King Philippe on Monday following failed overnight budget talks, local media are reporting. The government must save &euro;10 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":309767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309773,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309772\/revisions\/309773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}