ABVV CEO Bert Engelaar about 2025: “Maybe Armand Duplantis should come and explain to the government how to really set the bar high and achieve it”

If you saw Bert Engelaar in HLN in 2025, there was a good chance that he was angry. Because that is what top union officials usually are: angry, dismayed, sometimes alarmed and occasionally threatening when he announces the next strike. But his Belgian of the Year is someone who makes him happy: “A man on his knees, flag around his shoulders, tears in his eyes.”

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