Strategy alone can arrest our industrial decline
Marc De Vos sees the rhetoric of indignation surrounding company restructuring as little more than dereliction of duty. The decline of our manufacturing is structural and can only be stopped with structural measures. Both the federal and the regional level are in play.
Subsidies for Arcelor?
The textile sector survived its crisis because of a reorientation towards higher valued added segments. This is also the kind of transformation the steel sector needs to go through in the context of a new industrial policy.