'Disaster scenario: Laurent can do damage in a thousand ways'

- Belgian media are on the day that the Chamber of Representatives has decided to shorten prince Laurent on his annual payment of the state, not tender for the younger brother of King Filip.

For example, the plea that Laurent addressed to parliament on Thursday was described by Het Nieuwsblad as 'three pages of self-pity'. 'By strangling out loud at the family and politics, Laurent seems to have completely blown his bridges', according to the royal reporter Wim Dehandschutter.

The Flemish newspaper suggests that it is perhaps best that the endowment be withdrawn, as public opinion and politics want it to be. 'On paper, perhaps the win-win situation for all parties. Laurent can thus lead his own (citizen) life, without having to account for it, and the royal house is immediately delivered from his wretched child ', Het Nieuwsblad painted a visually bright picture of the future.

However, the newspaper also sees a 'disaster scenario', because an unchained Laurent can do much more damage in a thousand and one ways. 'He can be hired by shadowy companies as a signboard, being scared of bad regimes for the cart, and undisturbed criticism of everything and everyone. 'If he were to write his memoirs, Belgium would feast on it. Credit lost or not, a simple solution to the problem Laurent is not the newspaper.

Het Laatste Nieuws gave Patrick DeWael the floor, chairman of the Open Vld. 'Anyone who receives an allowance has a number of rights and obligations. And if you want to live free as a citizen, you can do that, but without an allowance. '