{"id":18616,"date":"2025-01-23T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/?p=18616"},"modified":"2025-01-23T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:22:26","slug":"lunch-minister-president-flanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/news\/lunch-minister-president-flanders","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with the Minister-President of Flanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]An important lunch and roundtable with Matthias Diependaele, Minister-President of Flanders, and the provincial winners of SME of the Year, initiated by <a class=\"BdrTEAnueFGDkvgGoEtKMtaxyzMApdPnLs \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/unizo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">UNIZO<\/a>, was held on Thursday, 16 January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>We discussed some of the biggest challenges facing our entrepreneurs today: licensing policy, labour shortages, and opportunities within foreign trade. These were open and constructive discussions that demonstrated once again how important our SMEs are to the Flemish economy.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to build a business-friendly policy that helps our entrepreneurs grow and innovate. A sincere thanks to all the entrepreneurs who shared their stories and expertise.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"BdrTEAnueFGDkvgGoEtKMtaxyzMApdPnLs \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/locquet-power-&amp;-light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">Locquet Power &amp; Light<\/a>, <a class=\"BdrTEAnueFGDkvgGoEtKMtaxyzMApdPnLs \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/de-sutter-naturally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">De Sutter Naturally<\/a>, <a class=\"BdrTEAnueFGDkvgGoEtKMtaxyzMApdPnLs \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/e-demonstrations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">E-Demonstrations<\/a> and <a class=\"BdrTEAnueFGDkvgGoEtKMtaxyzMApdPnLs \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/hanssens-beyond-telecom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">hanssens, beyond telecom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/matthias-diependaele-7513331a_vlaanderen-unizo-ondernemen-activity-7285702997223825408-hcGp?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;18630&#8243; img_size=&#8221;full&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/6&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;50px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]An important lunch and roundtable with Matthias Diependaele, Minister-President of Flanders, and the provincial winners of SME of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18643,"href":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18616\/revisions\/18643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vansichen.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}