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- Cars top 5 million on Belgian roads
Thu 30/08/07 - The number of cars registered in Belgium has topped 5 million for the first time. This total has risen sharply over the past decade.

The latest figures show that 5,048,723 cars are registered in our country.

If buses, vans and lorries are included, the figure approaches 6 million.

In addition a further 375,000 motorbikes are registered here.

     
 

Interesting fact to know: there are 10.4 million Belgians.  In case some foreign army want to invade Belgium: we'll simply put our cars in the street, nobody can get through this mess. You are warned.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Thu Aug 30th, 2007 at 12:39:44 PM EST
I'd love to hear your perception of the current political situation in Belgium (since you've done great diaries on the elections there back in June).
by Laurent GUERBY on Thu Aug 30th, 2007 at 02:15:13 PM EST
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Well, it's kind of a soap for the moment.
Lots of spectacular tittle's in the press (country is falling apart.....) but I think it will take at least another two weeks before the negotiations will have some result.
The question is how far to the right politics will shift and the linguistic hoopla is only a smokescreen for this.

But soon as there is some light, I'll write a diary.

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Thu Aug 30th, 2007 at 02:53:56 PM EST
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Thanks!
by Laurent GUERBY on Thu Aug 30th, 2007 at 03:46:01 PM EST
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