'Resilience' of Belgian economy supports local start-ups

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The central bank blames the downturn in global trade and higher interest rates.
62% : The country, which sits in the centre of an arc of EU prosperity from southern Sweden through Paris to northern Italy, is among the ten most represented nations in the FT's ranking of Europe's fastest-growing companies -- for the very first time.
58% : VST Fire Solutions, for example, launched in 2019 and installs sprinkler systems across the EU.
54% : Unlike the French-speaking southern region of Wallonia, Flanders has little legacy of heavy industry, such as coal mining and steelmaking.
54% : As Belgium is a federal state, Flanders has its own government, too, which controls more than half of state spending.
40% : But he adds that challenges for start-ups include "a constricted capital market . . . and outdated legislation -- in the Netherlands and the EU -- often still based on processes from the 1990s.

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