Media

Interview - De Tijd

13/07/2024

A call in Time for a real ‘paradigm shift’ around long-term disability and back to work. (in Dutch)

Studio Interview - Kanaal Z

28/06/2024

Studio interview on KanaalZ on the positive balance sheet of the Belgian EU presidency. Belgium was the right country at the right time. (In Dutch)

De Tijd - Take alarm signal from entrepreneurs seriously

05/06/2024

Together with Itinera co-CEO Ank De Wilde, I call for the alarm signal from entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial families about wealth taxation to be taken seriously. It is fundamentally about the climate of business and wealth creation in our country. (in Dutch)

Studio Interview - Kanaal Z

04/06/2024

Studio interview on KanaalZ on farmers' protests as a symptom of Europe's difficult balance between economy and ecology. (In Dutch)

Interview - Trends

31/05/2024

An honour to be part of the ‘council of wise men’ taking stock of 20 years of policy for Trends on the eve of the federal and regional elections. (in Dutch)

Interview - Canal Z

13/05/2024

Interview on CanalZ on the rise of populism in Europe and its impact on the European Union, already historic upheaval. (in French)

Opinion - De Tijd

24/04/2024

I join 64 economists and experts in calling in De Tijd and in l'Echo for a policy strategy on productivity growth: by far the most important but most misunderstood variable for prosperity, sustainability and well-being. (in Dutch)

Interview Kanaal Z 

23/04/2024

A warning in the studio of KanaalZ: Belgium's budgetary challenge in the coming years is politically more difficult and demanding than during the Global Plan under the Dehaene government. (in Dutch)

Debate - De Afspraak

12/12/2023

"Europe is now more about security than economics," says Professor Marc De Vos (in Dutch)

Interview in De Tijd

10/12/2023

Professor Marc De Vos: 'Europe is becoming a federal state at record speed'

​Double interview with Prime Minister De Croo in Trends

07/12/2023

'The Russians are much better than Europe at rigging a war economy.' (in Dutch)

Interview Radio 1 - De Ochtend

10/12/2023

The new book 'Superpower Europe' is about the challenges facing our continent and what answers the European Union could offer to them. Marc De Vos, professor at UGent and author of the book, explains more. (in Dutch)

Interview on Kanaal Z about Delhaize

28/09/2023

In the KanaalZ studio about the final phase of the Delhaize conflict and its consequences for social dialogue in Belgium.

'Delhaize could revolutionise restructuring process in Belgium' (Trends)

28/09/2023

Interview with Trends/Knack on the endgame in the social conflict at Delhaize and its possible political consequences.
(in Dutch)

The summer review: Belgium, Europe and the world (TrendsTalk)

19/08/2023

In broad conversation on KanaalZ about the state of Belgium, the federal government, the role of Europe and the problems in China. (in Dutch)

The paradox of rising living wage numbers (Trends)

10/08/2023

Interview with Trends-Knack about the why, what and how of the rising number of living wage recipients in Belgium, while the labour market is begging for people. (in Dutch)

Automatic wage indexation also in the Netherlands? (Trends)

31/07/2023

The Netherlands discovers Belgium! Some reservations about the desirability and feasibility of automatic wage indexation 'Belgian style' in the Netherlands. (in Dutch)

What should be Europe's response to America's protectionism? (NPO1)

07/02/2023

Interview with NPORadio1 about the heart and soul of our European economic model in response to US protectionism: does the EU serve all member states in the same way or mainly the big and the rich? Europe has options to avoid an arms race (from min. 17, in Dutch).

The risk of slipping as a country is very real

16/10/2022

Breakthrough interview on the state and the country's imminent arrival: the great and inevitable challenges we can and must face together. Agree or disagree. (in Dutch)

Belgian budget deficit derailed, 22 economists sound the alarm (Radio 1)

14/07/2022

In conversation about derailed budgets and the need to intervene, following a collective opinion piece with a group of economists. (in Dutch)

Spending frenzy clashes with dramatic public finances (De Tijd)

14/07/2022

Together with a diverse group of economists, I call in De Tijd for urgency and decisiveness to make Belgium's public finances healthy. (in Dutch)

Interview Channel Z on pension reform

19/07/2022

In Z-News, Marc De Vos provides interpretation on the latest pension reform decided by the federal government.

Pro Flandria - The first big '2024 debate'

13/07/2022

"The democratic and governance deficit"

Breaklines 2020, perspective 2030.

11/02/2021

2020 and the corona crisis highlighted fault lines and structural woe in our society. But what awaits us after the pandemic, heading toward 2030? (in Dutch)

De Afspraak - Canvas

19/10/2021

Embrace economic reality, embrace e-commerce (in Dutch)

De Afspraak - Canvas

20/02/2020

In De Afspraak, Prof. Dr. Marc De Vos (visiting fellow Itinera) talks about his book "Better is not enough": an appeal for democratic patriotism and against stagnation. (in Dutch)