Technology and practical skills are central in current education debates. We have to innovate to grow and in many countries, companies and policymakers plead for more technically educated personnel.

Now the amendments of the municipality decree and OCMW-decree are impending, a lot of politicians and official actors are intervening in this interesting debate and the apparent peace and calm on local, provincial and Flemish level is being disrupted.

A European resolution fund for banks can lead to a breakthrough for the current stalemate. Cutting the link between the sovereign debt problem and the banking issue should be a priority.

Analysis shows trust to be an essential component for economic prosperity. Human built institutions enable us to maintain intensive cooperation that are of the essence for our society. Labour specialization, the accumulation of knowledge and the sharing of risks are all key to this.

The introduction of new media in education does not have per definition a positive impact. Neither tablets, nor digitalized books, nor the structure of the education system can guarantee the performances and learning improvement of pupils.

More than twenty years the issue of integration has been part of the preoccupations of our country, since the famous report of the royal commissariat, the predecessor of the current Centrum for Equity of Chances.