Belgian Constitutional Court upholds unemployment reform, annuls one provision

Belgium's Constitutional Court validated nearly all of the De Wever government's unemployment reform, annulling only a provision in Article 212 of the July 2025 program law that limited benefit duration to under twelve months for certain long-term unemployed. The ruling is a partial setback for the government's labor-market tightening, but the core reform stands. The annulled provision's impact on fiscal savings and labor supply is uncertain.