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I'm sorry to sound cynical, but that is one of the oldest scams in the book. http://wikitravel.org/en/Common_scams

The Belgian embassy in Buenos Aires has an emergency number for just specifically this sort of case: http://argentina.diplomatie.belgium.be/nl/op-reis

If this ever happens to you, our embassy staff will support you, help you with the police report, replace documents, and either help you get in contact with family to arrange the money transfer, or in worst possible case, provide tickets. Yes, even in the weekend.

You can also go to a money transfer office and get money from your family in Belgium, to anywhere in the world, within 5 minutes.

You can help the emergency dispatchers bij installing the 112 app. If you need any help: cops, medical or firefighters, you call them through the app and they get your location. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.Nextel.EmergencyApp112

>Minister Joke Schauvliege (CD&V) should not feel strengthened by the climate protest of the past few weeks, she should pursue a much more ambitious policy. That's what Anuna De Wever, the young organiser of the schoolchildren's protest against climate policy, says to VRT NWS.
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>"Minister Schauvliege should not really feel strengthened in her policy because we completely disagree with her policy", says Anuna De Wever. "We want much more ambition, not more of the same. We want a real climate plan by 2050, so we can achieve the targets. That's not the case now."
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>"I have heard from her that she has points like an aircraft tax. I am in favour of that. But please put that money in public transport", says De Wever. And there is more. Something must also be done about meat consumption, because that is a very big reason for pollution and that makes your ecological footprint enormous. Deposit money for disposable packaging is also okay for her. "Absolutely, but these are side issues."
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>That Schauvliege wants to talk to 300 young people is not very efficient for Anuna. "It would be better if she invited 300 climate experts to debate with her."
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>There is an urgent need to raise awareness among the ladies and gentlemen of politics. "It is such a big problem. We need to tackle that big. We must tackle it quickly'.

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To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Cara Pils. The alcohol is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical gastronomism most of the taste will go over a typical drinker’s head. There’s also Colruyt’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into the failed attempt to rebrand it - their personal philosophy draws heavily from Milton Friedman literature, for instance. The margi's understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the taste of this beer, to realise that it's not just tasty- it says something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Cara Pils truly ARE Dutch - of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the humour in Colruyt's existential catchphrase “Laagste prijzen” which itself is a cryptic reference to Smith’s Scottish epic The Wealth of Nations. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Colruyt’s genius wit unfolds itself on their taste buds. What fools.. how I pity them. ��

And yes, by the way, i DO have a Cara Pils tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they’re within 5 IQ point of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid ��

This is perfectly normal. Most webshops in Belgium are absolute shit. And many companies don't have an actual shop, just a website. At the start of the first lockdown I got into an argument with a bicycle shop owner who complained about being closed (fair enough) after I had said that if in 2020 you don't have a webshop, your business probably deserves to die.

Yes it was perhaps not a nice thing to say, but there is really no excuse. I have a side business and it took me 2 evening to fabricate a decent webpage on wordpress.com for an extremely low amount per year. It really isn't difficult.

Yet so many people flat out refuse. I've been on 1 website to buy steel, where I had to send a mail to paper catalogue without prices, and then they would make me a quote. Meanwhile there were Dutch websites where every size of every type is available with a shopping basket system, online chat, and a whatsapp chat. Google anything in dutch 'X... kopen' and you will find tons of Dutch shops and almost no Belgian ones.

Any Belgian company who wants my business should have a webshop, or I will ignore them.

lol this scammer is very famous and has his own place on wikitravel. Every time I'm in Buenos Aires I'm hoping to meet him, but never had the chance...

> Be aware of a guy claiming to be a Dutch/Belgian traveller (blond/brown hair, Overweight, Blue Eyes, about 40 years old, who got 'mugged' at the station (or in a taxi, or a similar story), having everything including his passport and backpack taken and with nowhere to stay that night. He will engage you in conversation at length and is a con artist who is VERY persuasive and convincing. He will use every trick in the book to win you over. Do not help him out, he has been doing this for 8 years or more and systematically targets travellers.

http://wikitravel.org/en/Buenos_Aires#Stay_safe

>On Wednesday, the Brussels correctional court imposed a fine of 600 euros on a federal police agent, half of which was conditional. The agent of the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption made the mistake of carrying out three unauthorised searches in the National Register in 2015.
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>The officer refused a settlement of 200 euros and then had to come and explain it to the correctional court in October. He then said that he had consulted the National Register to find the address of an ex-colleague, of whom he feared she would commit suicide. He said he had to intervene because the colleague did not answer his calls and messages.
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>'There are far too many professional politicians in this country,' said Kristof Calvo (Groen) this afternoon to VTM News. The federal group leader of the Greens in parliament wants to abolish the Senate and the provinces.
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>'After the next elections in 2019 we have to get rid of a lot of mandates and levels,' Calvo said to VTM Nieuws this afternoon. 'The senate and provinces must be abolished, the intermunicipal associations must be changed, there must be fewer municipalities and Brussels must finally be simplified.'
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>Calvo also came back to the discussion about the severance pay of politicians. 'I do not understand why colleagues continue to defend the system of severance pay', Calvo said to VTM. 'We must dare to reform this system ourselves, otherwise we will not deserve the confidence to decide on the employment conditions of all eleven million Belgians.'
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>'It therefore makes me angry that colleagues reacted furiously a few weeks ago when the people at bpost, completely abandoned, came out onto the street for better working conditions. Those same colleagues are today defending their own privileges, that is indefensible. Those people are destroying politics,' Calvo concluded sharply.

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I remember reading a couple of months ago about an expat who lived here for a long time got fed up with this issue, that she (had) developed an app where you can check which establishments offer free tap water. Google Play Store and Apple Store

Disclaimer: haven't actually tried the app myself

>In the Bree library, in Limburg, members from ten to ten can now go to the library with an e-ID, a personal code and a set of rules. A Belgian first.
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>In recent months, "ambassadors" have already tested the new system in the municipal library of Bree. As of this week, the "Open +" system is at the service of everyone, but under certain conditions.
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>From now on, the library will be open every day, even on Sundays and public holidays, from 10am to 10pm. Thirty hours of this time the library is manned, as before. The other 54 hours are the building - without staff - accessible for those who want to come and choose books, read or study in peace or work on the PC.
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>How does it work? "You enter the building with your e-ID card and a personal code that only applies to you. Not for your neighbour or partner: they have to request their own code," explains librarian Annemie Arras to VRT NWS. There are cameras, but "we have confidence in our members. The library users do have a big responsibility.
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>Is this a creative solution to save staff? "No," emphasises librarian Annemie Arras, "we stay open the same number of hours with the same number of staff members. The creative solution is to let people do things they don't always need us to do. And we have such a beautiful building. A public building always belongs to the citizen, but you have to protect it a bit.
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>The open library of Bree is a first for our country. It already exists in Germany and Scandinavia.

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>According to sp.a, raising the minimum pensions costs 2.3 billion euros and the pension bonus 200 million euros. In order to finance these pension plans, the socialists advocate a reduction in company subsidies, the abolition of tax subsidies for payroll cars and a more efficient operation of the administrations. But part of the financing, 800 million euros to be precise, must come from interventions in the pension system itself.
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>For example, 500 million must come from an increased solidarity contribution from the highest pensions. These revenues should then serve to raise the lowest pensions. In addition, EUR 300 million should come from a reform of the tax subsidy for supplementary pensions.
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So extra tax those that already pay most of the taxes or have paid most of the taxes . I wonder if this also counts for someone who was on unemployment most of his career? Knowing spa it probably will.

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You ask: "Why? What did the russians do to us lol."

I deliver.

Here's more. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/13/politics/russia-investigation-indictments/index.html

All fresh news.

Regarding russian internet trolls:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

>In the Walloon town of Komen-Waasten, a remarkable number of Flemish farmers have been visiting with tractors and trolleys over the past few days. This has everything to do with the pump ban that is in force in various places in Flanders, but not yet in Wallonia.
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>The transfers from Flanders to Wallonia are often discussed in the context of communautarian issues. But now there is a striking transfer in the other direction: a transfer of water, from Wallonia to Flanders.
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>Due to the prolonged drought, the West Flemish farmers from the IJzer bassin are no longer allowed to pump water in order to spray their crops with it. And they notice this just across the language border, in Komen-Waasten (Comines-Warneton).
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>This town has been (figuratively) flooded by farmers from Flanders for a few days now. The farmers come with their tractors from West Flanders to collect water from the Walloon exclave, on the border with France.
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>"The Flemish farmers have no other solution than to get to the Walloon side, where we have a police ordinance that allows us to pump up water", says mayor Alice Leeuwerck (MR) to our colleagues of the French-speaking broadcaster RTBF. "We allow this in one place, between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., so as not to disturb the local residents in the evening.
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>The water in Komen-Waasten is pumped from the Leie, la Lys in French. In that river there's no ban on pumping, not even on the Flemish side. But it may not be long now, because the maximum pumping level of the river will soon be reached, says Mayor Leeuwerck. She will therefore no longer issue any new pumping permits.

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Organisers Vestiville arrested, public prosecutor speaks of possible fraud and false invoices

The organisers of the cancelled Vestiville festival have been arrested for questioning. It concerns three people, they are being questioned by the federal judicial police. That's what the public prosecutor of Limburg says.

The public prosecutor doesn't want to confirm names, but presumably they are the three people behind BVBA Vestival, the Dutch Ravuth Ty and Aymira Ty (brother and sister) and their business partner from London, Nick Chawda. The three of them were all in Belgium. Their festival Vestiville in Lommel, for which 35,000 people were expected, was cancelled yesterday at the eleventh hour, which led to chaos.

Summer festivals

Two people have been interrogated last night and will be brought before the investigating judge. The public prosecutor's office only means that they are "people who know the Dutch language" so that would be Ravuth and Aymira Ty. For "the English-speaking person", presumably Nick Chawda, there was no lawyer and no interpreter present yet, he is only being interrogated today.

The interrogation is carried out by the judicial police unit, which specialises in fraud and money laundering. The public prosecutor's office is not yet in a position to say exactly what they are being charged with, but speaks of "possible fraud", "possible false invoices". "There will be a lot more research to be done in the coming weeks", says Jeroen Swijsen of the Limburg Public Prosecutor's Office.

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I'm pretty sure that first joke would work just as well with a man. And in my experience, men are way more often portrayed as idiots in commercials.

About the rest, wouldn't the sexism lie in consistent application of a certain gender role? Like the Mr. Clean advert, women are still allowed to clean, are they? It's only a problem if you consistently use women to portray someone cleaning. Similarly, girls can still play with pink castles, I'd only consider it a problem if the entire catalogue only had girls with pink stuff and boys with guns and cowboy boots

Not only in Belgium though. Norwegians love shit like that.

> Deze livestream is alleen te bekijken met Flash.

Welcome to 2006.

While I don't particularly like N-VA, this type of low effort jab, with no context at all is exactly the fuel N-VA needs to keep telling people "See how they hate us? See how they need to make things up because there isn't actually anything bad to say about us?".

One of his responses on twitter:

>Ik ben niet ANTI-immigratie, ik ben wel vóór een ANDER, duidelijk en kordaat migratiebeleid en wel 100% tégen een Laissez-faire, Laissez-passer migratiebeleid van onduidelijkheid en willekeur. En ik werk in die richting met de steun van een heel groot deel van onze bevolking.

A lot of people are going to like hearing that. Not just those who hate immigrants, also those people who feel the government is sloppy and has too much red tape.

I recently made a comment about how N-VA has this system where they label all criticism of them as "bashing" and how that devalues the conversation. How it stops criticism from being a thing.

Well, this is actual bashing. There is no criticism here. Only a cheap attack with nothing to back it up. A quick mention in an article that's about something unrelated. That's bashing. So even more corn on their mill(does that translate properly?).

I went and read the article: https://flipboard.com/@flipboard/-the-mosque-is-belgiums-biggest-official/f-31282d7493%2Fwashingtonpost.com

The part about Theo Frankcen is literally 2 lines(before they added it to include his twitter response). The rest of the article is actually about how the interview with the director of the Brussels mosque went and how Belgian politics as a whole responded to it. And how the situation is progressing.

So yeah, actual bashing. Continue on like that and 4 more years of N-VA on both the federal levels and flemish levels is almost guaranteed.

I was speaking of all others companies that exist in our country and get no help while contributing to our economy. Google datacenter and Alibaba implementation in Liege doesn't contribute to our economy, they could be in Sweden, it wouldn't change anything for our economy.

But to give some european competitor (at least), for Alibaba competitor in the neighborhood of Belgium, we have bol.com in the Netherlands and i think an equivalent in France.

For datacenter, one example is OVH in Europe, but there are other in Europe (and that are european). All the google online services can be replaced by others alternative :

- Search engine (searX (decentralised), Qwant (France), startpage (Netherlands), ...);

- Gmail by any other mail service (see this list from many european countries...);

- collaborative office tools by equivalent (libre office online, onlyoffice, collabora, ...);

- ...

All can be replaced, either by european or Belgian services (i know a few developers making custom solution for our Belgian companies, i just don't know anything Belgian for the public). It is not uncommon nowadays to see people and companies that want to be less dependent of Google or Microsoft (at least seeing the impact of one major power outage on their services) !

Nice, so it only took DeMorgen around 3 days to translate an article this time. The original one provides a better read, together with comments here.

Begrijp me niet verkeerd. Ik kijk ook nog naar lokale series (zoals Beau séjour en Tabula Rasa op netflix).

Ik gebruik ook vrt.nu om naar eigen producties te kijken. Onlangs heb ik nog Taboe, Politie 24/7, Spoed 24/7, universiteit van vlaanderen,... gekeken op mijn tv via een vrt.nu plugin voor kodi.

Ik bedoelde alleen dat de mensen met een abonnement op play niet representatief zijn voor de gemiddelde vlaming. De abonnees op play lijken mij zeer 'homogeen' te zijn. Vlaamse series zijn nog populair ja, maar vooral voor de abonnees van play. Ik vind niet dat je mag veralgemenen naar de gemiddelde Vlaming. De verschillende artikels die ik hierover heb gelezen laten het toch zo uitwijzen.

Hiermee wil ik niet zeggen dat Play slecht of overbodig is, er is duidelijk een doelpubliek voor. Telenet probeert gewoon te tonen hoe 'succesvol' Play is (hoewel we het niet zeker weten) om zo nog meer klanten te lokken, dit soort artikels zijn gewoon reclame voor Play.

Het stoort mij ook dat je voor play ook verplicht bent om een tv abo te nemen. Je kunt niet enkel abonneren op play. (niet dat ik dat zou doen).

edits: bewoording

>Both N-VA and Vlaams Belang want to keep the federal level in the pressure cooker. "A government without a majority on the Flemish side is a "major problem" for us, De Wever threatened. In other words, a coalition without N-VA is hardly possible. But at the same time he also vetoed it: "After this result, we are not going to rule with the left at all". Only, a government on the right is impossible: the Swedish coalition has been wiped out.
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> it's about not tolerating hate symbols, just like a nazi flag is more than just a "silly novelty flag"

It is just a novelty flag in large parts of Asia though: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/27/asia/taiwan-nazi-school-asia/index.html

> An improperly worn sombrero can be classified as a hate symbol

ok

Sorry, but that's a bit ridiculous. Conceptions of beauty and their place and relation with respect to the arts are topics that have been discussed at least since Plato. Hume, Kant and Hegel all wrote on the subject.

The entire conceptualisation of art has undergone drastic changes this last century and naturally discussion and naturally discussion by artists themselves and philosophers of art has followed (Adorno is the most prominent example of last century I can think off).

Which brings us to the current day discussion on the topic by philosphers such as

• Alexander Nehamas' Only a promise of happiness

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• Arthur Danto's The abuse of beauty

two people who hold a view that is favourable to reevaluating the status of beauty in art. I doubt you'd call any of them nazis.

> "Quality" means nothing without privacy and comfort. > > This just feels like separating the rich from the poor even further.

Indeed, just take a standard dystopian sci-fi book and you will notice the poor people living in a container.

Have a little ambition, please.

I finally got the HTML5 version of my game working:

http://users.telenet.be/geek/connectdiscs/

Read the description on the play store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.geek.connectballs.android

Have fun (in the sun sun sun) !

Have you tried a dictionary? What part of the definition of racism would allude to fat people?

Sorry for sounding abrasive, but throwing the racism-card around willy-nilly annoys me quite a bit.

Here's a British example: Half of British Muslims believe homosexuality should be illegal, about a quarter want Sharia Law as the official law of the land in Britain.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/11/british-muslims-strong-sense-of-belonging-poll-homosexuality-sharia-law

Here's a Belgium example: Brussels itself is about 25 percent Muslim — 70 percent are of Moroccan heritage and 20 percent are Turkish. According to Pew Research Center, 83% of Moroccans not only support Sharia Law, but also believe it should be the official law of the land. Turkey, one of the most moderate Muslim countries, enjoys about 12% support for Sharia.

Source: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/07/muslims-and-islam-key-findings-in-the-u-s-and-around-the-world/

Leftist politicians will not stand up to this because they don't want to even risk alienating one of their biggest voter blocs, which is immigrants and Muslims.

It sounds silly, but simply reviewing and getting (detailed) insight into your spending makes a difference. You are instantly confronted with that gym membership you waste €15/month on, the insanely high cost of getting a sandwich multiple times a week, etc...

These things -really- add up and reviewing it makes you stare it in the face. Any sane person who is trying to save a little more will see the opportunities and can now take concrete action.

To take it to the next level from there, you can categorize and start allocating mini-budgets. Every time you want to buy something, check your budget of that category and see if you can "afford" it this month. If not, control yourself and buy it next month.

Even further, save up for big bills. You know a year (or 3/6 months) in advance when your insurances, taxes, ... are due. You also know most of the time how much it will be. Divide the cost of it by the number of months in which it is due and treat it as a monthly cost. When the time comes to pay that bill, you've saved up enough and can pay the bill immediately without it even affecting your monthly budget.

Also, I've now just essentially explained https://www.youneedabudget.com And no, you don't need YNAB itself. You need their methods, which they explain in full for free. Their app does nothing you can't do yourself with some spreadsheets.

Suddenly all the middle aged office ladies are football experts, mainly echoing their husbands shoutings at the TV. They are suddenly vehemently in favor or against certain teams. Everbody has their own predictions about coming matches on their "inside information" or some crap like that. And they all know every goddamn players' strengths and weaknessess.

Thankfully the <em>frightful presence</em> of our teamlead shuts them up quickly.

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>The government gives the green light for studies on a second offshore wind farm zone close to the French border. This was proposed by North Sea Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne and Energy Minister Tinne Van der Straeten.
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It does not work. Period. You make it sound like there is an acceptable failure rate while it's actually not effective at all.

> In spite of decades of use, and ample opportunity to gather statistics, there just isn't any scientific evidence beyond a few dubious anecdotes to show that torture works. Torture is an extreme method, and before we even reach the ethical and moral debate over its use, the effectiveness of it must be demonstrated to some reasonable degree. The burden of proof lies with the people who seek to torture. Any trials would of course be deeply unethical, but it's not like they don't have plenty of past experience to draw data from.

[source, The Guardian]

> As early as the third century A.D., the great Roman Jurist Ulpian noted that information obtained through torture was not to be trusted because some people are “so susceptible to pain that they will tell any lie rather than suffer it” (Peters, 1996). This warning about the unreliability of information extracted through the use of torture has echoed across the centuries. As one CIA operative who participated in torture during the Vietnam War put it, “We had people who were willing to confess to anything if we would just stop torturing them” (Andersen, 2004, p. 3). Indeed, the Army Field Manual explains that strategically useful information is best obtained from prisoners who are treated humanely, and that information obtained through torture has produced faulty intelligence (Leahy, 2005).

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>The justice authorities started seizing almost 350 trucks from the transport company Jost. VRT NWS has learned this. The second largest transport company in the country - Essers is the largest - is suspected of large-scale social fraud. Hundreds of drivers are said to be working according to Eastern European standards, even though they are actually driving around in our country for the Jost Group.
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>After years of legal battle, the chamber of indictment gave the go-ahead last week: the federal public prosecutor's office was allowed to seize as many as 346 of the transport company Jost Group. This is almost a quarter of the group's fleet of 1,500 trucks.
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The French-speaking Christian trade union CNE calls it 'scandalous' that Ryanair sends 'no show' warning letters to staff members who participated in the strike last Wednesday and Thursday. The trade union expressed its dissatisfaction in a letter addressed to the Belgian and European authorities.

A "no show" is a serious mistake which, if it happens more often, usually leads to dismissal without compensation. Participating in a strike can in no way be considered a serious error. This goes against all international conventions', the CNE emphasises.

It is addressed to Prime Minister Charles Michel, Minister of Work Kris Peeters, President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and European Commissioner for Social Affairs Marianne Thyssen. The trade union is expecting a response from these ~~competent~~ responsible politicians. For far too long Ryanair has been able to ~~make its social sense~~ do what it wants without the social inspection services intervening,' the CNE states.

Ryanair had cancelled 600 flights on Wednesday and Thursday due to the strike of cabin crew in Belgium, Portugal, Spain and Italy. This had consequences for some 50,000 passengers. Ryanair employs 700 people in Belgium, 600 of whom work at Charleroi airport.

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EDIT my corrections, there's some weird mistakes here

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NordVPN is pretty garbage, it’s just a case of spam marketing that makes it look good.

Just like Manscaped, any professional will say it’s useless expensive garbage but it sells because everyone assumes it’s good from all the ads.

• Use it to pay for food.

• There is no PIN. Put it in the machine and press OK.

• Each top-up is valid for 12 months. Try to use it every time you buy groceries.

• Some stores (e.g. Colruyt) don't mind if you buy some other stuff (e.g. €1 for a chocolate bar and €99 for non-food), most do.

• Install the app to check your balance.

• If you also have some eco voucher balance (next to a food voucher balance), you can use that to spend on various stuff vaguely related to ecology. You probably won't get these weekly but yearly. There are 1000 threads about how to spend those eco vouchers on /r/Belgium, search for them.

• If you have a €2 balance but €3 to pay, just mention it to the cashier.

• I'm not sure whether you can use it abroad.

>Are there some deals like f.i. don't spend a cent for a month and get a bonus? Or pay like every day etc...

That doesn't make any sense. No special bonuses whatsoever.

>Or pay only in European stores like Aldi or Lidl?

The app can show you which stores accept them in your neighborhood, but definitely all supermarkets (and their smaller derivatives) and even some restaurants.

I use NordVPN (they have a hidden 3y deal and support for P2P, if you're into that. And you can use up to six devices at a time.

Funny you say that given what's been going on in the news lately. Look, I don't care who has which horse in what race, but where there's smoke there's fire. There is absolutely no reason a company like this would astroturf to the degree it does if everything was peachy keen. Hell, besides that advertisement that was posted everywhere on reddit last year (round-up doesn't cause cancer! click this link fellow redditor!) you even have reddit accounts whose sole purpose is just to defend Monsanto (or should I say, Bayer).

Jurors give $289 million to a man they say got cancer from Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller

Homebase to review sale of Monsanto weedkiller after US cancer verdict

As stated in actual dictionaries:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/subsidy

A subsidy is money given as a part of a cost of something to encourage the behavior. Very crucial money GIVEN not money not charged. The outcome is the same, however deduction =/= subsidy

Please let us use correct terminology thank you

Dinant: malgré une passerelle, les navetteurs continuent à traverser les voies (RTBF)

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Edit: AFAIK, there is a project to modernize the station with creation of a corridor under the tracks, but why demolish the footbridge before that?

In which world are trains faster or cheaper? For example, going from Brussels to Innsbruck by train currently takes about 10 hours and costs about 187 euros single trip and single person. Needless to say going by car will be faster and cheaper.

> In Melle railway company NMBS has today opened a modern workshop for trains. They will receive technical maintenance in four hours time - "a pit stop", according to SNCB - which will make them available for passenger traffic more quickly. A total of almost 160 million euros was invested in the workshop.
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Rowenta turbo ventilator is good shit. It has a turbo mode for during the day and a silent running for at night, I've used it at least 4 hours a day for 5 years (I use it to smoke inside and blow the smoke out if you know what I mean.)

This is the one I've been using: https://www.amazon.nl/Rowenta-Silence-Extreme-Tafelventilator-VU2630/dp/B01891LYZQ

> I'm a programmer and I can confidently say that we are not entering an AI revolution. What happens is that X amount of years companies and devs discover that the computing power improvements introduce some new things which were impossible before. After that, the hype dies down and we enter an AI winter again for 4-5 years. This is a cycle which keeps repeating.

That's because you are imagining a singularity of sorts. Yeah, that won't happen. Instead, AI based automation will steadily keep pecking away jobs of ever higher skill level, until at some point in the future we will suddenly realize that AI has silently taken over.

> We should at least keep our population stable until the boomers die out, but the native Belgians aren't even able to do that.

http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/belgium-population/

Our population increases with 65-70000 people per year (+- the city of hasselt each year). 48000 is due to migration, so the rest is by definition native Belgians.

A couple of quotes

About chopping of hands

>Leopold II was against chopping hands off, he said. He thought it was idiotic. "They may cut off everything from me, but not the hands. Hands are all I need there."

About the sales to Belgium of the colony, and his view on Belgians and les Flamands.

>"Petit pays, petits gens", he liked to say. In French, in English or in German, but never in Dutch, because that was a language he did not want to learn.

About the international view on Leopold's "property"

>Except for a few enlightened spirits - scientists and missionaries who did make the effort to get to know the African people - it seemed more often that animal rights activists were speaking than human rights activists. Their outrage was also selective, as crimes took place in British, French and German colonies as well as on cotton plantations in the south of the States. But the scale on which it happened in Congo was unseen.

And now his sexual preferences.

>His affair with a sixteen year old Parisian prostitute was well known and he was hated because he spent fortunes on the woman. In Brussels her carriage was once pelted with stones. Her name was Blanche Delacroix and after the death of Leopold's wife she became his wife and also his heir.

So we have had a prostitute queen at some point...

And a paedophile king...

And truly WTF:

>But that he was mentioned in a trial in London as a client of a whore-madam who delivered girls between 12 and 15 to gentlemen of rank, and that he had a current account of 800 pounds a month with that madam, which was hushed up in our country.

Sleeping with 16 year olds was not seen as a big deal, and Leopold's own arranged marriage was with a 16 year old.

>But girls of twelve, thirteen, fourteen? That was also considered degrading and criminal at the time.

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>At the euthanasia trial in Ghent, the three doctors were acquitted for the poison murder of Tine Nys. That was decided by the assize jury after hours of deliberation. There was loud applause throughout the courtroom when the verdict was pronounced.
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I got a raspberry pi connected to my tv with this vrt.nu plugin for kodi running on it.

Works great. Can easily switch between the live streams and the available content or my own shows.

behoove: To be necessary or proper for.

https://www.wordnik.com/words/behoove

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Hadn't heard the word before either, nice to learn something everyday isn't it

>Jimmy De Frenne from Ostend ends his record attempt to sit as long as possible on the toilet at 116 hours. At the beginning of this week he started the attempt to sit on the toilet for 150 hours. Today he had to quit, because his body wouldn't let him anymore. The record is on his name anyways.
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>The wife of Mechelen's N-VA councillor Melikan Kucam has been arrested as an accomplice in the case of humanitarian visa fraud. Kucam himself has been in prison since mid-January. His son had also been arrested earlier, but he was already released under conditions.
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Not the best per se, but very popular, Chokotoff: https://www.amazon.com/Chokotoff-Cote-toffees-delicious-chocolate/dp/B06XZNBV4B Or just about anything Cote D'Or. Neuhaus and Leonidas are also good choices you can find on Amazon, but I worry you might get shafted on the price.

I've been using 'Private Internet Access',...

Performance wise? I don't think you will get a speed penalty bigger than 10%. Ping increases a bit, which is normal.

Even though I probably have the cream of the crop as an American, I still recommend using Netflix in unison with a VPN, even a free one like Hola. You get to access all the other Netflix regions and experience all available content, in quite a few different languages.

No fuck no. Ignore that fool. He's the same as all those 'experts' that share their top stocks in newspapers here in Belgium; those which they conveniently already bought.

OP there are a ton of great books. Check the wiki at /r/investing or a thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/comments/166ha8/what_are_rinvestings_favorite_books_future_side/

The somewhat 'bible' that many people recommend is The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. Altough slightly outdated and you shouldn't take it to the letter it is a good read altogether

I was going to link the exact same article. :)

In short:

• In Belgium people will often look at you cross for asking for tap water. Some regions even let us know via their website that they refuse to serve tap water because it isn't qualitatively good enough and it drops profit for the bars and restaurants. There is however an app called "KRNWTR" which locates the nearest bar/restaurant/... that does serve you tap water!

My two cents: most of the time they will give you free tap water for when you are just passing by. If you are really dining somewhere, it's custom to order a bottle of water or a glass and pay for it. But I can't see them refusing you a glass either, so feel free to try it out! Ask politely and don't get mad when they refuse. (And fill in the app if possible so we know where to go if we want some as well!)

EDIT: The app is a Dutch one, and it is user based. If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

Translation:

>"We rarely reach 50% adherence to the vaccine among nursing home staff," Vincent Frédéricq said Friday. "It is really time to make the campaign in favour of vaccination," urged the secretary general, Ferubel-Femarbel, representing commercial rest homes in Wallonia and Brussels, heard by the special Covid committee of the Chamber.
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Keep in mind that there is such a thing as an incubation period wherein tests will remain negative even though you are infected. If you had a drunken night with unprotected hanky-panky, let's say three days ago, rushing to a doctor now won't always give final results. Info

Have you considered Revolut? It gives you both interbank exchange rates and instant money transfers to other users. Plus a cheap payment/ATM card giving some free withdrawals anywhere in the world. With their premium service there are additional benefits but I've been using the free version for more than a year as a secondary card and found it sufficient. I especially like push notifications on my phone the very second I've paid for something with the card. P.S. I hope this is not against forum rules - if so, please feel free to edit - but if you use my "invite a friend" link https://revolut.com/r/gedimi8c0 to sign up it would help me get access to one of their premium services, crypto exchange which I'm quite curious about (but not curious enough to pay for premium).

If you have an entire week to spend, I highly recommend taking a 40 min train ride to Ghent. http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g188666-Activities-Ghent_East_Flanders.html Best city of europe: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/belgium/flanders/ghent/travel-tips-and-articles/76165

>The association for free tap water in Belgian restaurants reports that they have a free application ready to help you easily find a restaurant nearby that offers free tap water. "The purpose of this app is actually to destroy itself," they add.
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Children from vulnerable families are more often admitted to hospital and stay there for longer than their peers from richer families. This is evident from a study by the Independent Health Insurance Funds, which is published in De Standaard. It is mainly young children - younger than 3 - from vulnerable families who are more likely to be in hospital. From the teenage age, the effect disappears.

According to the Independent Health Insurance Funds (OZ), it is clear in the figures: children from a socio-economically vulnerable family are hospitalised up to 36 percent more. These are children with VT status, which means that they are entitled to increased reimbursement for medical care. Other health insurance funds say that they see the same effect.

There are various reasons why it is precisely these children who are more likely to end up in hospital. "It is in any case a group that is more likely to have medical problems because of the vulnerable situation of the family. In this group we see many problems with the respiratory tract: infections of the upper respiratory tract, RSV, etc.", says Ann Ceuppens from the study department of the OZ.

"But we also think -but there are no figures- that doctors are going to hospitalise these children more quickly as a precaution. This ensures that they receive proper care, for example if there are suspicions that the parents cannot cope with this care or do not fully understand the recommendations.

More prevention needed

To avoid these frequent hospitalisations, the group of vulnerable families needs more prevention, says Ceuppens: "We really need to focus on specific preventive actions towards these groups, so that we can reduce these hospitalisations and reduce the duration of hospitalisation towards day hospitalisation or, if necessary, just an observation".

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Will the North Sea become a low-emission zone? The Backer wants sensors on wind turbines to detect polluting ships.

Does our North Sea follow Antwerp's example and will the sea soon become a low-emission zone? If it depends on State Secretary Philippe De Backer (Open VLD), it does. He wants the windmills at sea to be equipped with sensors that check that the ships do not emit too many harmful substances. That is what Het Nieuwsblad writes.

When we think of pollution, we often think of cars or factories that emit too many harmful substances. However, the share of shipping should not be underestimated either. "Shipping is responsible for about 3 percent of CO2 emissions and 18 percent of sulphur emissions," says Secretary of State for the North Sea Philippe De Backer (Open VLD).

In order to monitor these harmful substances, De Backer wants to have sensors installed on the wind turbines. They can then check whether the ships are emitting too much nitrogen, sulphur or CO2. He has submitted a project to Europe for this purpose. The offshore wind farm is the ideal place for this, let his cabinet know, because all shipping routes run along it. The wind farm is in fact the gateway to our sea," it sounds.

"Ensuring that the North Sea becomes a low emission zone

Today, these checks are carried out by small aircraft that fly through a ship's plume of smoke and are able to measure the substances. "But with those sensors, of course, that becomes much easier. In this way we can ensure that our North Sea becomes a low-emission zone. If the project is approved, the sensors can in principle be installed from the end of this year.

Violations of the standards are subject to substantial fines. The average is EUR 20 000, but these amounts can be as much as many, depending on how polluting the ships are.

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I would advice against cloudflare, since they bought this IP to be able to test their anti ddos and other security tools.

9.9.9.9, or (quad9)[https://www.quad9.net] is fast and protects you from malicious websites.

Just noticed you can freely download this app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.fodszspfssfodss.handi2park&amp;hl=en&amp;rdid=be.fodszspfssfodss.handi2park

I've been testing Private Internet Access for a week or two now and it works so great I've usually got it running constantly now.

If budget is an issue, FrootVPN is free but that's also the reason a lot of people are careful and skeptical about it.

Download the Recycle! app, the official app from FostPlus and your commune for your waste calendar. Also has the opening times of your container park.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.inthepocket.fostplus.recyclage&amp;hl=en

Also available or iOS

> -calender with trash days and holidays.

I use the Recycle! app for that. reminders the day before at 18hr to put the trash out!

Don't use taxis. Use public transport/bikes/rental car. Taxis are way to expensive in Belgium.

EDIT :

• link to trains app : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.hafas.android.sncbnmbs&amp;hl=nl
• link to bus app : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.themobilecompany.delijn&amp;hl=nl

Hey /r/Belgium,

In my spare time I created an app that solves my frustrations with the official De Lijn app. I created The Line, an app that shows realtime information about your buses and trams. It's very similar to what you see on the live information panels at your bus stops, but this app allows you to view multiple stops and lines (called "groups" in my app) at the same time.

My app is free and does not have ads, and I intend to keep it that way. I purely created the app for myself, and decided to share it with others :)

If you're interested, you can check out my app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.maartenvg.theline

Quotations from Chairman Juncker:

• "If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue'." (On the 2005 French referendum on the Lisbon Treaty)
• "Monetary policy is a serious issue. We should discuss this in secret, in the Eurogroup [...] I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious [...] I am for secret, dark debates."
• "When it becomes serious, you have to lie."
• "There can be no democratic choice against the European treaties."

That really sounds like a man who is concerned about democracy.

>The prosecutor's office started an investigation into Leopold Lippens, the mayor of Knokke-Heist. That's what De Standaard writes. It is being investigated whether Lippens is possibly guilty of a conflict of interest.
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>The public prosecutor's office of Halle-Vilvoorde brought four water pipe bars before the correctional court on the grounds that they had committed various infringements of the smoking ban. People who committed an infringement in the bars risk a fine, while the bars themselves have a temporary closure hanging over their heads.
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Edit: who the hell downvotes translations?

> It's safe to say that there are no real extreme parties present in the elections in Belgium.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040905003258/http://www.pvda.be/solidair/n3598/korea.htm

Nope, no extreme party at all!

VRT NWS also has a DAB station which plays the latest radio news. You could probably link the two together using an app like Tasker. I only use Tasker for a single lightweight task but there's an entire reddit community for it where I'm sure you could figure out how to set this up.

Link works for me, maybe they fixed it? Anyway if ot still doesnt work i tried coppying the sharelink on my phone as i do still have it in the playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.bmid.itsme

Let's make a bet. If Thomas uses this money on fancy self enrichment you win, he is a conman as you so confidently say, and I give you a bak tripel karmeliet.

If on the other hand, the money is used for activism, blood testing, legal costs, posters, flyers etc, as Thomas and his dastardly companion Nele claim, then I win the Tripel Karmeliet.

The income and expenses are all public so we will find out in the coming months: https://opencollective.com/pfonds#category-BUDGET

>The 22-year-old car driver who caused the fatal accident in Sint-Niklaas in August, in which a five year old girl died, has been sentenced to seven years in prison and a driving ban of eleven years.
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I found this part on why they would get published there interesting (from De Tijd, translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator):

> Ignace Lemahieu, research director at UGent, states that the university tries to raise awareness among its researchers. ...] Some journals have been given the designation 'predatory', but they challenge it or work in a kosher way. It is therefore not always clear to our researchers whether journals are malicious. They may therefore have acted perfectly in good faith.

Windows 10 now also comes with a sandbox, for if you have suspicious things you want to try first (e.g. a keygen)

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-kernel-internals/windows-sandbox/ba-p/301849

The real shame is Microsoft arbitrarily hiding this behind a pro license instead of home

Came across this great article You need to encrypt all your data. This is how it’s done

Found it in https://getpocket.com which is a great little app and Chrome add-on

Will google this shortly but does anyone know how if the "cash instead of company car" thing is now official, and how to calculate the amount?

No probably not. NordVPN is just not the best VPN to use I'm afraid.

Better is to use something else. (I use Windscribe because of their "no-ads" approach and their respectable price + good Reddit representation.)

I have Telenet too and it gets never throttled in any way for me.

si vous ne pouvez pas téléphoner et que vous ne pouvez envoyer qu'un message, vous pouvez télécharger l'application 112

112 app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.Nextel.EmergencyApp112

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/112-be/id1249304307?ls=1&amp;mt=8

Keepass can copy your passwords to the clipboard, so you can basically paste them anywhere, including your game clients.

There's a good Android app available as well. It includes a custom keyboard, allowing you to 'type' your passwords (or just copy them). It can sync with the file on your PC by using any cloud provider you choose. The iOS apps are less impressive imho.

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Nine

It is hands down the best Exchange/O365 e-mail client there is and its main feature is exactly what you are looking for: Instead of locking down your entire phone with a PIN (if your company forces that on you) you can just lock down the app with a PIN and it's all good. It will not alter anything on your phone, every security feature lockdown is confined to the app itself.

It's pretty expensive for an app, but imo worth every cent. I think you can download it for free as a trial.

tried a different type of alarm app this morning and it worked extremely well!

Gentle wakeup

It basically starts to simulate a sunrise about 20min before my alarm is supposed to go off, and it get's brighter and brighter until I need to wake up. if you don't wake up after a while it will play a regular alarm.

I woke up by the gentle light and I felt really awake and not as abruptly awoken as well

It's a bit more involved than an ad blocker but check out https://pi-hole.net/ It's a DNS server that should block almost any ad, except on TV programmes.

Don't understand why they haven't banned gambling and alcohol ads in Belgium, those things can fuck up people's lives a lot faster than cigarettes. And don't get me started on the national lottery ads on the state channels.

El centro Cabraliego is a pretty big place where you can seat that many people at a table.

They don't take reservations though, so if you arrive at 20h on a Saturday you may have a problem. You can send a few people ahead to grab a sufficiently large table & number of chairs.

It's a very basic place but the atmosphere is great (Spanish), it's loud, the food is good (greasy tapas / finger food) and the beers are just 1EUR!.

If we're supporting Belgian game development, take a look at Sunset from Tale of Tales: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/taleoftales/sunset-a-first-person-videogame-thriller

They're not a 20+ team, don't need hundreds of thousands for their game, but could still very much use some support.

This was a poll taken here 4 years ago. (I know unreliable and things but i've seen several other polls on this sub and the %'s more or less always remained the same)

https://www.strawpoll.me/1580236/r

I doubt it. About two years ago I started listening to all albums in the rateyourmusic chart. I am currently at album 507 so I already listened to a lot of metal. And since these albums are high on this list it should be the best metal albums. And I still notice these are the albums I like the least.

the problem is we stare at screens practically the entire evening. the blue light from screens and tv's will halt our melatonin production, which makes you feel awake even tough you are tired.

I user f.lux to counter this effect, and it works very well i find.

> > Another point against F35: weapon compatibility. > The F35 is an American aircraft. Designed for.. American weaponry. > We currently have about 250-500 European (/German-ish) IRIS-T infrared air-to-air missiles in our (B

On the subject of weapon compatibility, do consider the number of allies operating or having planned purchases for each option, not just our immediate neighbours. The Dutch, the British, the Italians, the Danish, the Norwegians will all be operating the F-35 too: https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/05/07/look-whos-buying-lockheed-martins-f-35-now.aspx (please ignore the site's name. It's a Shakespeare reference)

Not that it's unsafe, but Rabot is not a place to stay for a honeymoon... There's nothing there, really...
Spend some extra cash, and stay in the city center.
This is a 5 minute walk to the center

PcGamingWiki might have some info on here

General guide seems to be to use the included DOS version.

Edit: does your pc meet minimum specs?

A whole 8mb of Ram required!

Your first post was basically an insult ("Flikker op") and implying that everyone who opposes that tweet and disrespectful discourse is an unrealistic leftie who wants open borders and ignores the problems of migration. Not the best way to start a discussion.

Not sure if we have any more recent ones than this 2014 poll

I have here a 512MB RAM 20 GB SSD VPS coupon code by DigitalOcean.

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This code will get anyone 10$ (two months for free) There are 3 data centers in Amsterdam,but you don't have to choose that one if you don't feel like it.

happy coding :)

edit: just want to say thanks to the 2 people who signed up,know that i keep you close to my heart. <3

Another hostel in Ghent, I pass it almost every day going to work. http://www.ecohostel.be/en/home-en/ http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g188666-d1606657-Reviews-Ecohostel_Andromeda-Ghent_East_Flanders_Province.html

>Febelfin chairman Karel Van Eetvelt has plans to set up a new political movement. The plans are in an early stage, but he is talking to a group of people, says Van Eetvelt in an interview with De Morgen. It has to be radically innovative.
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>Not so long ago his name emphatically buzzed around as a possible candidate chairman of CD&V. In the end, Van Eetvelt suppressed those rumours himself: the party leadership was not a personal ambition. Nevertheless, it was clear that the chairman of the banking federation Febelfin was itchy.
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>Van Eetvelt, who had detailed discussions with the twelve CD&V members who had to screen the party, wanted to give the Christian Democrats a new face. But he bumped into too many walls and conservatism. 'I would like to make myself useful in a new political movement', Van Eetvelt now states. What it should look like, what it should be called, who is part of it, and what role Van Eetvelt will play in front of or behind the scenes, is still open for discussion. At the moment there are discussions with people inside and outside politics, but Van Eetvelt is careful not to dissolve names.
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>However, it is clear that Van Eetvelt does not want to be part of the political establishment and primarily wants to offer an answer to the discourse of parties such as Vlaams Belang and PVDA. An open, progressive and tolerant alternative has to be put up against this, it sounds. A movement that also gives room to citizen participation.

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For Money transfer, WISE has some of the best convertion rate + minimal costs. I use this personally for years now. Someone can send you USD and you can receive it in Euros (or any other currency). You can use the invite code below for a free transfer of up to 500 eur.

https://wise.com/invite/asd/a6d5e8d

https://www.odoo.com/ altough its so much more than accounting itself. It's an open source ERP that can be customized to your specific needs. Granted it takes a big initial effort to get it up and running configured to your specific needs.