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FALSE: “Belgium has the highest public expenditure and the highest structural deficit”

Fact-check, FalseBy Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, NL July 4, 2023

Bart De Wever, the mayor of the Belgian city of Antwerp and chairman of the Flemish right-wing political party N-VA, claimed that “Belgium has the highest public expenditure and the highest structural deficit of the EU.” EUfactcheck looked into this claim and the source it was based on, and found out that the statement made…

Mostly true: “Sustainable aviation leads to job loss, higher travel costs and low passenger demand”

Fact-check, Mostly trueBy Sofia University, BG July 4, 2023 Leave a comment

An article titled “Sustainable Aviation: Increased cost of greener aviation will curtail pax demand” posted in TR Business (a business to business trade magazine) on 17 April 2023 reports that greener aviation will lead to a loss of thousands of jobs, higher travel costs and low passenger demand. As climate change due to air carbonization…