Showing posts with label CHOCOLATE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CHOCOLATE. Show all posts

Monday, February 04, 2008

Belgium has an image? Yes..but it's pretty transparent.

Belgium plans to launch an international promotion campaign to improve the country's image abroad.

Belgium is especially concerned with drawing more investments to our country. The campaign will focus on Belgium as a country with a good investment climate. The system of 'notional interest' will be explained: thanks to this system, companies that invest in Belgium enjoy low corporate tax.

We'll start by showing how up is down and then move on to show how compulsion = liberty.
And how Belgians will prosecute anyone for human rights violations, no matter where they occurred (offer void in Congo).

The chamber of commerce in the United States reported last week that Belgium was a bad place for foreign investments. The aim of the new international campaign is to refute this image of Belgium. There will be advertisements in newspapers and on television: including on CNN and BBC World, and in the Financial Times of London.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Belgium is worth fighting for!

Belgium long ago abandoned all hope of being a presence on the world stage and gave itself over to the pleasures of alcohol, chocolate, sex and seafood. To this day, it remains a nation untouched by nutrition. These are ideas worth fighting for.
In its almost total lack of ambition, in its unrelenting sense of existential dread, in its drunkenness and in its gluttony, Belgium is the most inspiring of nations. If the Belgians have tired of being Belgian, it is up to us to take their place. If Belgium will not be Belgium, it is up to us to be Belgium.
Belgium stands on the verge of disintegration. So should Belgium continue to exist? The answer is yes. Here’s why.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Belgium without the Waffle

After more than three months, what has happened to ungoverned Belgium? The sky has not fallen in, the economy is still working, transport still runs and all the usual Flemming and Wallooning continues just as before. As a friend of mine put it to me, if Belgium can manage without a Government, why can’t we?
Of course, the current fascinating situation in Belgium has been brought about by an accident of psephology. But imagine an intentional alternative to our current overbearing, regulation-happy, statist busybodies. Imagine a Government whose manifesto pledged that their default position would not be to legislate and to invasively manage but to do as little as possible.

Monday, August 06, 2007

But will we still be able to get Waffles?

Arrêtez!... This could be the end of Belgium
Yves Leterme, the Flemish politician and party leader who is struggling to put together a ruling coalition after Flemish-speaking separatists made striking electoral gains, has declared Belgium "an accident of history".
Belgium has long been the butt of jokes from its larger European neighbours. But to its French-speaking minority, the current political crisis is no laughing -matter. READ ON