Michel MR-led Suédoise centre-right coalition 2014-2019
BEL·2014 – 2019·MR + N-VA + CD&V + Open Vld ('Suédoise' — yellow+blue, first without francophone socialists since 1988)
Leaders: Charles Michel (PM, MR; francophone in N-VA-dominated coalition) · Johan Van Overtveldt (N-VA, Finance Minister) · Kris Peeters (CD&V, Economy and Employment)
First federal government in a generation excluding French-speaking socialists (PS/cdH) — 'Suédoise' centre-right coalition with flemish-nationalist N-VA as largest party. Economic school: centre-right supply-side with Flemish- nationalist partner accepting N-VA tempering of communitarian demands in exchange for labour-market and tax-shift reform. Signature actions: Tax Shift (2015-2019) progressively cutting employer SSCs from 32.4% to 25% and raising consumption/environmental taxes and capital-income taxation; pension-age rise to 67 by 2030; 'index jump' (indexsprong) freezing wage-indexation for one cycle (Apr 2015); statutory pension-age to 67 legislated 2015; CETA ratification nearly blocked by Wallonia (Oct 2016 — Paul Magnette's veto eventually withdrawn); corporate-tax rate cut from 33.99% to 25% phased 2018-2020. N-VA exited Dec 2018 over Marrakech migration compact; Michel resigned Dec 2018, governed as caretaker until May 2019 election. Left-right: centre-right. Popularity: N-VA 32.4% Flemish vote 2014; 2019 election N-VA lost ground to far-right Vlaams Belang (18.5%); coalition unable to re-form. Coherence: moderate-high on economic programme; broke on migration and identity politics.
Policy-content fingerprint — how the framework codes this movement on its axes
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
Pension age 65→67; unemployment activation tightened.