
Estote autem invicem benigni, misericordes, donantes invicem, sicut et Deus in Christo donavit nobis. (Ephesians 4:32)
If idiots have a face it is certainly Belgian.
In Belgium it is obligatory to vote. If you don't vote you will be fined in Belgium.
There are very many political parties, governments, and languages in Belgium, since that country is a very divided federation.
The Belgian federal government consists of 60 ministers, one Prime Minister, and 10 or 11 Vice Prime Ministers.
Belgian people are seldom helpful, never keep promises, and they always lie to you.
Belgian bureaucracy is even worse than that of the former Soviet Union.
My mother was Belgian, and my daughter is Belgian, so of course I'm concerned.
After living 9 years in Belgium, I returned to Sweden the 14th of April this year.
I love to have returned to Sweden, and to be able to experience real freedom again.
Even Iran or Libya are probably good examples compared to Belgium.
There are 10 times more dead at road accidents in Belgium compared to Sweden, and yet both countries have the same size of population.
Most roads are in bad shape in Belgium, they are underdimensioned, and Belgian drivers are generally speaking ruthless.
I need to tell of my experience, because everyone will just tell you how wonderful, Belgian beer, chococolate, and fries are.
But you need more in life than just beer and chocolate.
The only people who work hard in Belgium are in fact Italian immigrants.
60% of Belgians are Flemish people, who speak Dutch. Half of the Dutch-speaking people in Belgium are either Nazis or almost Nazis.
The other half of the Flemish fight the French language by importing as much Arab-speaking people they possible can from Africa.
The Dutch-speaking people in Belgium are cheaters and cowards, who hide behind a facade of Catholic incompetence and bureaucracy.
Here in Sweden the stores are open on Saturdays and Sundays, and the Flemish really should be taught some Protestant work ethics.
If your parents dies in Sweden, you don't pay any taxes on your heritage.
But in Belgium, when my parents died there, their bank accounts were blocked, and I had to go through a three year long hellish nightmare before the succession was finished after them.
My attorneys, who needed a year to send every letter, were even more incompetent than the hellish Belgian system, who wants this to "only" take two years.
My father told me at the hospital before he died: "I will never get out from here alive". He didn't.
They would not even let him outside a last time to see the sun and the nature, as he wished, and as I asked.
Belgian bureaucracy is not human!
When I arrived in Belgium in April 2000 I had to go to the city municipality there 10 times before they accepted that Sweden in fact is a country of the European Union and that I had a right to be there.
When my Swedish father got into the hospital in Belgium for a minor surgery in 2003, he never got out from there alive.
Unfortunately, there was not much I could do about it.
The French speaking Wallonian part of Belgium, where I lived, is even more backward than the Flemish part of Belgium.
You will only find a few state subsidized farms there, and most people are unemployed.
I have tried to make my incompetent bank ING there to send 400 Euros from my bank account in Mons to another account.
I have sent a bunch of emails, called three times, and sent faxes, but yet they still can't say clearly if they have been able to transfer 400 Euros to an account at Fortis also in Belgium.
The bank says my wish to pay has been "registered", but it will not answer if the payment in fact has been made or not.
I guess I will know in a week or two...
There is absolutely no limit to the incompetence in Wallonia.
Maybe it is the fault of the Catholic laziness that most people do not work before the age of 30 there, and that all the shops are closed most of the days and on the weekends.
When I bought a house in Wallonia in 2006, I went through a law firm, which you must do according to Belgian law when you buy a house there.
The buyers fee to the lawyers is a horrible 20 percent of the value of the house in Belgium.
You will only find crooks and dishonest and violent people in Wallonia, not to mention transportation facilities and post offices, who constantly are on strike.
Once, when I took a train, the train engine driver took a coffee break for one hour during the rush hours, and people were standing everywhere in the train waiting for him to come back.
Wages, vacations, and lunch hours etc for people working in Belgium are very poor and short.
A couple of years ago all schools were closed for 6 months because the teachers were on strike.
And then Belgium was without a government for a year...
If you take a train to your job it will be canceled or late 3 days of the week.
When you have worked a few years at a company, and they lay off its staff, it will take the companies 3 months to send a paper proof you actually have worked there.
Of course the time mentioned you worked there will be incorrect on the certificate, and if you worked good or bad will not be mentioned, and what you actually did working there those years will not be mentioned either.
If you have worked more than a year at the same company in Sweden, and you quit or is laid off, the company must, according to Swedish law, specify how long you have worked there, explain what you did, and tell how well you accomplished your work.
Belgian companies lack these important guidelines.
I have had more than 55 Swedish colleagues during my 9 years in Belgium.
Did I see anyone get a promotion? No.
How many of those 55 are still in Belgium? One.
At my last job in Belgium I was hired as a salesman. But when I started the work it was about handling complaints.
Here in Sweden I sell ads. If I sell I get my 20% commission as promised.
Belgian business leaders and businesses, have the mentality of bureacracy, cheating, lying, and taking dishonest advantage of people.
I think Belgians do not understand business the slightest.
Well, dear friends, Belgium is a country were pedophiles - Catholic Priests or not - force small girls to starve to death in basements, and then they bury them in their gardens.
Of course I have met some nice people in Belgium too.
But unfortunately they are too addicted to everyday life there to react, or they are newly arrived English immigrants.
I never wanted to leave Sweden when I left Sweden in April 2000, but I did it because of love.
Well, I have wasted nine years of my life in Belgium, but fortunately I got officially divorced the 5th of March this year, since my now ex-wife demanded divorce - she has lived in France since the beginning of last year.
Belgians are a divisive people and Brussels will certainly success in dividing Europe into a real mess too.
Through the EU, Belgium brings all of Europe closer to the edge of the abyss.
I'm happy I'm not in Belgium anymore, and eventually I will never have to return there again.
Good luck, Europeans, on the elections for the European Parliament June 7 elections!
"Qui reformabit corpus humilitatis nostrae, configuratum corpori claritatis suae secundum operationem, qua possit etiam subicere sibi omnia", Philippians 3:21.