"Nach Angaben des ehemaligen Staatssekretärs für Wissenschaftspolitik Thomas Derminne (PS) führte dies im Jahr 2023 zu 3.620 direkten und 10.000 indirekten Arbeitsplätzen. Sie arbeiten in Unternehmen mit brüllenden Namen wie Thales Alenia Space of Aerospacelab (beide in Charleroi), SpaceBel (mit Zweigen in Hoeilaart und Lüttich), Redwire (Kruibeke) oder Sabca (Brüssel). Vielleicht schulden wir auch dem neuen belgischen Astronaut Raphaël liégeois dieser Großzügigkeit."
Was ich hier sehe, ist irgendwie N-Va Weltanschauung: 1) Wie kommt es, dass sich so viele Top-Unternehmen in Wallonia befinden? Sie sollen dumm sein … 2) Wie kommt es, dass sich so viele Jobs in Charleroi und Luik befinden? Sie sollen faule soziale Assistenten sein … also lass uns das brechen, denn wenn sie das N-VA falsch beweisen, wer wird dann wieder für den N-VA stimmen?
"Sommigen vermoeden dat Vlaanderen ruimtevaart voor een stukje uit handen van Belspo wil halen."
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Von ApprehensiveFall9705
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It’s the narrative that we are fed since 20 years.
People who work in tech and fintech know better…
Majority of innovation comes from south of the border.
The group I use to work for funded startups and later incorporated them, most of them came from Wallonia.
If we didnt subsidise american multinationals so much we would have our own space station by now
I think both charleroi and liege kinda needs those jobs. I can see the obvious bias and typical PS shenannigans but
1. I love space. So go belgian space program. Lets go to mars!
2. Again, Charleroi and liege are 2 places in walloon that could really benefit from these jobs.
1. They are located there for one reason only: subsidies. European, Belgian, Regional and Reconversion money for all the industrial closings, like existed for Genk en Zolder when they closed their mines in the 60s.
2. A part of the labour is still building things that need operators, so some low laboured skills are still needed. On the other hand, we have a good education on both sides of the language lines, and have a good infrastructure and have a long standing culture of building for space programs. This affection is build through defence contractors also working on space programs (like Thales and Sabca). They have typically been located in the walloons.
Also, the biggest qp
Thanks to these Belspo ESA funding I was able to develop, demonstratie and patent a Technology which I now want to commercialize. Don’t see this as a cost savings….it will cost us money in the end.
Well, there is nothing to be surprised about. Some of these companies are from France (Thales, Safran etc), and a larger portion of those Belgian companies are founded by French-speaking Belgians and operate in French-speaking regions.
I don’t see anything particularly puzzling here, as even in absence of financial incentives, it would still make more sense to establish these in Wallonia due to shared language.