A court has denied a Belgian prince’s request to get social security payments in addition to his six-figure royal income. Despite receiving €388,000 (£295,850; $376,000) from public coffers last year, Prince Laurent, King Philippe’s younger brother, claimed that his labor entitled him and his family to social security.
He had claimed that his responsibilities as a prince and his ten years of managing an animal welfare charity made him partially self-employed. Laurent, 61, said that his actions were motivated more by “principle” than by financial gain. The court didn’t agree.
A migrant has a right to [social security] when he registers here,” he told Belgian station RTBF. I may also be a migrant, but my family founded the state first. However, a Brussels court denied Laurent’s appeal on Monday, stating that the prince could not be regarded as either an employee or a self-employed person.
The judge conceded that the prince should, in fact, be eligible for a pension, but he claimed that legal loopholes prevented that from happening and that the law needed to be changed, according to broadcaster VTM.
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