Le financement par l'Etat fédéral des ministres des cultes et des délégués du Conseil central laïque. Rapport de la Commission des sages

Rigaux, Marie-Françoise [FUSL] Mortier, Freddy [Universiteit Gent] Drijkoningen, Jonny [Conseil d'Etat] Husson, Jean-François [UCL] Leus, Kaat [VUB] Smets, Noël [Cour des Comptes]

(eng) This reports proposes an analysis of the current mechanism for recognizing and financing religious and philosophical communities in Belgium. It examines in depth all questions regarding salaries and pensions of clerics and humanist delegates. Other apsects of the public financing of religous and phlosophical communities are also dealt with, including criteria on religious participation, religious identity and other means for "counting religions". A last part is dedicated to recommandations for reforming the current federal part of the public financing scheme.