Loubna Azghoud

Loubna Azghoud's public commentary moves across a consistent set of concerns: fiscal fairness, the governance of social housing, youth unemployment in Brussels, gender parity in business and technology, and the protection of children from sexual violence. What ties these together is a recurring insistence that policy be judged by outcomes rather than intentions. On the debate over taxing large fortunes, she is explicit that the underlying goal is not in question: "personne ne remet en cause la nécessité de justice fiscale" . Her objection is to how that goal gets translated into policy. She argues that "une politique publique ne peut pas être évaluée uniquement sur des intentions. Elle doit être jugée sur ses effets" , and she draws a sharp distinction between wealth and income, warning that entrepreneurs' assets are usually tied up in the value of their companies rather than available cash, so conflating the two in tax design risks damaging investment, innovation and employment . She frames this not as a contest between solidarity and enterprise but as a search for balance: "Il ne s'agit pas d'opposer solidarité et entrepreneuriat" .

That same emphasis on effects over declarations runs through her work on the Foyer anderlechtois affair, where she served as cheffe de groupe on the parliamentary inquiry commission . She repeatedly cites the scale of the investigation, 150 hours of hearings and roughly 49-50 witnesses, culminating in 26 recommendations meant to strengthen transparency, ensure fairer allocation of social housing and end favoritism and political interference . Her stated rationale for the inquiry is grounded in the scale of Brussels' housing pressure: about 60,000 households waiting for social housing, some 42,000 units managed by the SLRB, and a 400 million euro budget planned for 2026 despite fiscal constraints . Her framing of the stakes is direct: "se loger n'est pas un luxe, il en relève de la dignité humaine" . For her, the point of the commission is not simply exposing dysfunction but ensuring that the 60,000 households waiting deserve "un système exemplaire, transparent et digne de leur confiance" , with the explicit political commitment to put Brussels residents' interests first .

On the labor market, she treats youth inactivity as a structural failure rather than a marginal statistic. She highlights that 13% of young people in Brussels are neither employed, in education, nor in training, and situates this against the region's comparatively low employment rate among European capital metropolises . She frames the mismatch bluntly, noting that sectors struggle to recruit while talent remains excluded from the job market, and rejects passivity: "nous ne pouvons pas nous contenter de regarder le train nous filer sous le nez" . Her proposed response combines proximity-based policy, faster and more personalized support for job seekers, training aligned with market needs, and stronger orientation toward in-demand professions .

Gender equality is another throughline, treated both as a political and an economic issue. On corporate boards, she acknowledges real progress, women now hold 36.9% of board seats at listed Belgian companies, up significantly since quotas were introduced in 2011, but she warns that progress has stalled once companies hit the legal minimum . Her core claim is that parity should never be treated as a finish line: "l'égalité ne devrait jamais être considérée comme un seuil à atteindre, mais comme une dynamique à poursuivre" . This concern extends into her work on digital inclusion and women in technology, where she argues that women represent half of humanity and must be active participants in the current digital transformation and fifth Industrial Revolution, and stresses building awareness among young girls around tech skills, noting that female founders tend to build startups oriented toward societal impact rather than profit alone ¹⁰. In parallel, she frames female entrepreneurship as constrained less by ambition than by access to funding, and positions digital inclusion as a broader task of ensuring women, youth and the elderly are trained and supported to adapt to ongoing digital and industrial change ¹¹.

Her commentary on child protection is the most visceral register in her public statements, triggered by the murder of an 11-year-old girl, Lyhanna. She uses the moment to name a pattern rather than an isolated horror, citing that nearly one in three victims of sexual violence in Belgium is a minor, that the perpetrator is usually someone close to the child, and that Child Focus reports show reported cases of child sexual exploitation have doubled in three years . Her framing insists that visible cases are only the surface of a larger, underreported problem .

Running underneath all of this is an explicit attachment to liberal political identity, expressed most clearly around the 180th anniversary