24 Jun 16 10:34, Ward Dossche wrote to BjЎrn Felten:
WD> Not in the way it landed here because Donald Trump said exactly the WD> same thing.
To have this clear: I did not know what Trump said anything about Belgium (I rather wonder he knows what Belgium is, after all). I was more referring to the time about 5 years ago when Belgium was not able to form a government for almost two years. In the following time I got the strong impression that the regions of Belgium (and their representatives, their administrations, their public authorities...) tend to spend more time in working against each other than with each other. One might think that this situation fosters people working on things like terrorist plots.
WD> For example, not every country got milliards of dollars to rebuild WD> its economy and now thrives because of the foreign aid it got via the WD> Marshall plan, even the Netherlands got a heap of money. WD> Belgium is one of the only ones after WW2 which tried to get back WD> going without an outside [mostly American] aid plan.
You mean these 777 million $ went to Luxemburg alone?
BF>> What does the southern, French speaking, part of Belgium has to BF>> contribute to Belgium's healthy economy, compared to the strong, BF>> Flemish part?
WD> Their contribution is negative, Flanders has a decade-long experience WD> at contributing which is part of the reason why we have no WD> net-contribution problems with You-Rob.
So why do you suggest that southern ("receiver") countries should leave the EU?
Regards, Gerrit
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