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How “poor little Belgium” became the first industrial powerhouse on the European continent, by @MichaelLMagoon. Between 1820 and 1870, income per capita almost doubled: “By 1870, it ranked among the richest economies in continental Europe, second only to the United Kingdom and ahead of countries such as France and Prussia in per capita income.” “Belgian firms produced locomotives, industrial machinery, and metal, supplying both domestic industries and export markets. This sector was closely linked to coal and steel production, forming part of an integrated industrial system.” Or take the textile industry in my own city of Ghent, which actively imported and copied British machinery and production techniques: “Textile centers such as Ghent were among the first to mechanize along British lines, while industrial regions around Liège adopted similar approaches in metallurgy and mining.” Why does hardly anyone in Belgium still remember the Ghent entrepreneur and industrial spy Lieven Bauwens (as demonstrated by @Bart_DeWever in his lecture at @UGent), who helped kick-start industrialization in the textile industry? I remember reading a great historical novel about Bauwens as a teenager, by Johan Ballegeer. Why aren’t we Belgians more proud of this? And why don’t we aim for another doubling by 2070? substacktools.com/sharex/Szp…

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De VVD ontkent dat er racistische dingen zijn gezegd maandag. Het zou een misverstand zijn. Heinen zou iets hebben gezegd over een puist waar de pus uitgeknepen moet worden. Dat is geïnterpreteerd alsof hij het over Marokkanen had, maar de VVD zegt dat hij antisemitisme bedoelde.

Al een kleine voorspelling. @alexanderdecroo zal volgend op het monsterverlies van @openvld zeggen dat ‘hij het persoonlijk uitstekend heeft gedaan’ maar de VLD ‘nu eenmaal meegaat in een grotere tendens’. @GLBouchez zal gniffelen.