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Having Leterme as a ‘prime minister’ is not good for Belgium… (04 januari 2010)
I’m not gone give any personal opinion about Yves Leterme as a politician.
We all know he did a bad job in 2008 but I’m willing to believe that he has learned a lot in the meantime and that he is going to do a lot better now .
But he could/can only change himself ( even that is already a difficult job !) changing the ¨public opinion is a lot different…certainly when you see that Globally .
Don’t forget that every where in the world they heard about the fact that Belgium had no government for more then half a year..and that fact was linked to ‘Leterme’ ! We were then seen as a ‘political instable country’ and in all the books and articles about internationalisation they learn businesspeople to be very careful with partners out of those countries.
So whenever a non-Belgium company is doubting to sign a contract with a Belgium company or f.ex. a French or Dutch company and somewhere in their mind they connect Leterme with instability …I’m 98% sure the decent businessmen will lay aside the Belgian contract
