Leo Neels over 'Een Plan voor het Land'
Waar naartoe met België? In deze eerste aflevering van Itinera Talks hebben Leo Neels en Simon Ghiotto het samen over Een Plan voor het Land, de nieuwste publicatie van Itinera.
Prosperity
Itinera gaat voor een samenleving waar het aangenaam is om te leven, waar frisse, ambitieuze ideeën de kans krijgen uit te groeien tot duurzame ondernemingen, waar onderwijs jongeren klaarstoomt en zin geeft, en waar innovaties transformeren in succesvolle producten in een economie die blijft bloeien.
Failure: a step on the road to success!
Bankruptcy has bad connotations and is associated with negative feelings. Employment opportunities are lost and suppliers can no longer collect their dues.
Managing Director, Leo Neels, emeritus at Antwerp University
Leo Neels, Managing Director of Itinera, is retiring after 25 years as Professor of Media and Communications Law at the University of Antwerp. He was a lawyer and lecturer of Media and Communications Law at the KU Leuven (1980-2013) and UAntwerpen universities (1992-2018).
Energy trilemma
Will the lights stay on if we close the nuclear power plants? What are the ecological and financial consequences of renouncing nuclear power? Are subsidies necessary to attract investment to replacement capacity? Does a significant increase in electricity imports offer the simplest solution?
Basic income between dream and reality
The 'basic income' is in the spotlight: as an answer to technology that destroys jobs, as a method for creating more opportunities and less poverty, or as an alternative to the welfare state.
Will the digital economy pulverise states and governments?
Our western societies are going through a massive shake-up. The globalisation of the economy is leading to a multipolar, complex world.
Mario Draghi's Nightmare
A hail of statistics and forecasts from the IMF and the European Central Bank (ECB) is confronting us with an undeniable truth – the economy is not recovering fast enough. Growth rates, though positive, are mediocre.
Will we ever get out of this economic crisis?
The real challenge over the next few years will be to avoid the shipwreck of the eurozone economy in what is often called a Japanese-style deflationary scenario - but with the Chinese slow-down feeding into it.
