The Belgium version of "West Side Story"

Belge side story
by Indyiv

What could be more frightenening than the MOULES versus the FRITES!

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.

THE WEEK OF THE FRITE

Sorry guys, I'm a little late to the party on this one, but it's come to my attention that it's national frite week here in Belgium, or if you have learned your Flemish, (as ordered) Week van de Friet. Rush out and get some, as you don't want to be caught short. I haven't heard anybody claiming they are Flemish or Walloon, but that might get a real war going.
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN

“The first time you hear the concept of Halloween when you’re a kid, your brain can’t even process the idea. You’re like, ‘What is this? What did you say? Someone’s giving out candy? Who’s giving out candy? EVERYONE WE KNOW is just giving out candy? I gotta be a part of this!’”

“Two Belgians at the Halloween party turned up with burned faces. What happened? They were bobbing for frites.”

More costumes here.... warning, they get much more tastless.

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.

Read on all you Libertarians

Belgian Beer gaining popularity in the US

HOLD ONTO your frites, Philly, we've got another batch of Brussels sprouting.
Already home to four Belgian-style taverns, the city will see another three, plus two more in the near 'burbs, by the end of the summer.
If you haven't been paying attention, what's happening is a perfect storm of three trends:
Belgium is producing the most exciting, flavorful and exotic ales in the import market. READ MORE FROM JOE SIXPACK