The Flemish government wants Belgium’s federal government to pay fines of €100,000 a day as long as flight paths at Brussels Zaventem Airport bother Flemish people.
It’s part of a broader political scrap over the airport, which is pitting Belgium’s fractious regional governments against each other and against the central federal administration.
In February a Brussels court ruled in favor of five Flemish communities that had challenged a new flight route plan rolled out in October, and gave the central government six months to come up with new routes.