Formed after world-record 541-day post-Jun-2010-election formation crisis, breaking on Sixth State Reform (Sixième Réforme de l'État / Zesde Staatshervorming) splitting Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde and transferring ~€20bn in competences (family allowances, labour-market policy, part of health care) to the Régions/Communautés. Economic school: centre-left PS-led, but fiscally constrained by bond-market pressure (10y yield peaked ~5.8% Nov 2011 before Di Rupo formation closed spread). Signature actions: Sixth State Reform (Jul 2014 enabling law); pension-access reforms (early- retirement age from 60 to 62, career length 35→40 years); unemployment- insurance degressivity reform 2012; corporate-tax notional-interest-deduction reform; €11.3bn austerity package (Budget 2012); Dexia restructuring (Oct 2011 Belfius nationalisation €4bn); Arco cooperative savers episode. Left-right: centre-left-led centrist. Popularity: PS vote ~26% (francophone), declined in 2014 election; N-VA surge in Flanders (32.4% Flemish vote 2014) ended the coalition. Coherence: high institutionally for Belgium (delivered Sixth State Reform that had blocked politics for a decade).
Policy-content fingerprint — how the framework codes this movement on its axes
Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
unchanged · weak
Sixth State Reform was federalising-devolving rather than separation-of-powers change.
Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
decreased · moderate
smaller transfer footprint
Early-retirement age rise, unemployment degressivity tightening.