I do understand your reaction that you feel personally insulted. The general misunderstanding between the 2 regions is that we blame the people who live there. But we should blame the leaders who made those situations possible. I compared the latest development with those subsidies to Charleroi at the North Sea. I know from very closeby how an investment program runs in Wallonie - and I can confirm it is very different than in Flanders. A Liege entrepreneur complained to me that he had to hire personnel send to him by the local FGTB representative. This entrepreneur was not free to chose his own personnel. If he would not obey, the local council would close down his factory because of polution. In movies this is called mafia.liege-bierset wrote:"Business Ethics"
Dear JFP,OO-JFP wrote:I can only speak for myself and the region I live in. I don't know how familiar you are with the northern part of the country but we speak another language, have a different culture which includes a different way of spending money and apparently some of us still show some knowledge of business ethics. The result of "donating" that amount of money to MoL will only result in a shift of employment and passengers from Brussels and Charleroi whereby CRL probably will be the biggest looser as a big part of the flemish people will make a trip from OST iso CRL. Is it that what you want?
And what to say about Brussels?
Nice people you are in Wallonia and especially: very rich in a country that is bankrupt. But yes the countries' debts are paid by "the nation" not by Wallonia and we all know who subsidies the nation...
Of course we known " the northern part of our country". I have many (real) friends there.We do business with you, we are your main customer, we spend our EUR's at the Vlaams kust, we use your airport, we buy meat and vegetables,e.a. witloof and also speculos from you, Flamish bricklayers have built my house, most of people in my area do buy furnitures in Tongeren...-and you name it.
We have no bones in the nose
At the end, to come back on toppic, I very much share Cathay's opinion. I still have questions about FR at MST (of course very seasonal business, with or without "carrots".)
I do feel pitty with the Walloon people who have to undergo the mismanagment of the politicians they have not voted for. Most of the Walloon people did NOT vote for the PS - but >90% of the state organisations personnel have a member card of the PS.
We had untill the nineties here in Flanders the CVP-state. Quite comparable to what the word PS-State stands for. ( the combination of a political party, the union and the medical insurance )
I am afraid that with examples of the disgrace of those subsidies we are going back to such a period where you have to align yourself with a political party/union/health care organisation to avoid that you become an outcast ( job/pension/unemployment fee/school,...)
The most striking thing is that NVA stands behind those subsidies. 2 elections ago, this same Flemish minister Geert Bourgeois promised that he would NEVER join a government if B-H-V was not split before the elections. ( I still have his email in which he promised it to me personally , imagine how I feel ) Elections came and...NVA joined the coalition. Without the B-H-V case solved. This lowlife creature should be sent to court because of breaking promises to the voters.
We Flemish always forget that we were always cheated by our own collaborators. We should not blame the Walloon population. It is not their fault.
For foreign outsiders who don't understand all this: remember the movie "Braveheart" with Mel Gibson. On the battlefield William Wallace is left alone by his fellow Scottish noblemen . The real enemy were not the English, it were his own people who betrayed him.
