Economic school: Flemish-liberal "active welfare state" — market- oriented reform of social security coupled with expansive social- liberal progressive legislation and dioxin-crisis recovery. Left-right axis: centrist-liberal, coded mixed content. Dated policies: euthanasia legalisation Law of 28 May 2002 (second country worldwide after Netherlands); same-sex marriage Law of 13 February 2003 (second worldwide); Copernic federal administrative reform 2000 restructuring ministries; tax reform 2001 (Reynders) eliminating top 52.5% and 55% brackets down to 50% top; abolition of conscription-era defence structure; Lisbon Treaty ratification; Iraq war non-participation 2003; regularisation of undocumented migrants 2000; Copernic for HR; pension age discussion; fiscal consolidation reducing debt from ~113% (1999) to ~84% (2007); dioxin-crisis recovery (Dehaene government fell over it June 1999); corporate tax notional-interest deduction (déduction pour capital à risque) Law of 22 June 2005 effective 2006; federalism reform Lambermont Agreements 2001; nuclear phase-out Law 31 January 2003. Popularity: 1999 election VLD 14.3% first-place landmark; 2003 VLD continued first place; 2007 narrow defeat. Coherence: high progressive-social + market- liberal synthesis — classic "Third Way with liberal flavour".
Policy-content fingerprint — how the framework codes this movement on its axes