Just a row on which that is based. They work on average 5 hours a week less compared to many other European countries. Most of them receive meal vouchers, hefty travel allowances and profit sharers from their employers every day. Can go to spas at the expense of the state in the event of illness. Have 36 days off a year, and to top it all off, they can retire between the age of 62 and 64. But you go there on vacation, and you are driving through that beautiful rolling landscape with all those picturesque villages where there is still a lot of peace and cosiness, you suddenly imagine yourself seventy years ago, but only wondering how the name of God is possible that they can earn their bread there. French are chauvinistic, like to hang in old trusted traditions, often only control their own language, and also the fast competitive world economy is not always seen as progress by many, and therefore not embraced and considered desirable.
Mario Verhees, Asten