Dalilla Hermans kicks off campaign for Bruges 2030

There was fierce criticism from Vlaams Belang and N-VA, among others, who find Hermans too woke. After a difficult period, she now straightens her back and kicks off the campaign for Bruges 2030 together with her team.

Dozens of volunteers went out in Bruges last night to hang slogans all over the streets or to spray them with lime paint on the stones. Questions such as: what is it really like? Laughed today? Or in Bruges: Wo see you gie preus ip? Dalilla Hermans, trajectory coordinator Bruges 2030: “For example, that is one of the flags that one of our volunteers has hung. We gathered a great team of volunteers who felt like starting that guerrilla action. So they are with those flags who you can also hang on the facade, went out into the street, very late yesterday and they searched for it, if you look carefully in the street scene, which will find you questions. “

The banners are even on the beach of Zeebrugge… up to the football field in the Jan Breydel stadium.

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The appointment of Dalilla Hermans as trajectory coordinator of Bruges 2030 has caused a great deal of commotion, especially from a political angle. The theme of the campaign fits into that hoopla. “I can say that that commotion has also emphasized the need for this theme somewhere. Because we have to talk to each other. If there’s anything that became clear to me during that fuss, it was like, ok, we “We need to get to know each other. We need to talk to each other much better, instead of assuming things about each other. So yes, it fits.”

Hermans and her team now want to focus mainly on the candidacy to make Bruges the cultural capital of Europe. “Our goal and the goal of the city is to capture that art and culture and the spirit that lives here very well and to give it an extra push. And hopefully long after that bid book goes to Europe, long after that to plant positive seeds. plants. And for the rest we are not looking too far ahead.”