Blog Project 3: Europe_Belgium!



1. One Job Is Lost Every Two Hours

 

Short Summary

According to the Belgian Technological Industry Federation Agoria, one job is lost every two hours without a Federal Government. To solve this stagnated problem, the head of Agoria Marc Lambotte called on politicians to form a new government that will tackle the problem of wage costs as quickly as possible.

Persuasive Paragraph

One lost job every two hours equals that more than ten jobs are lost per day, which cannot be overlooked easily. I have sometimes dreamed of working in the foreign countries to widen my job perspective and work in a comfortable atmosphere. Likewise, the junior and senior students in Korea like me are all concerned about getting jobs after they graduate. It is quite shocking to see that even those European countries with high employment rate fail to retain workplaces for their citizens. In addition to that, this article tries to tell me and my friends that the dream I dreamed might not be the case, especially in case of Belgium.


"One job is lost every two hours", Expatica. July 4, 2014. Web. July 6, 2014




2. More Night Flights at Brussels Airport

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Short Summary

The head of Brussels Airport, Arnaud Feist, believed that reinforcing the airport could create 10,000 new workplaces, adding that this requires allowing more flights per hour. Furthermore, he warned that if ignored, the new request will threaten the current airport workers.


Persuasive Paragraph

I am being more and more interested in booking flights in Europe; it directly relates to my Dutch life next semester. Moving on to the main argument. When making the important policy for a society like the article, according to the Introduction to Politics courses, the most important factor to consider is whether the policy itself has a meaning; that is, how much and when to employ remains as TECHNICAL factors that should be relatively come out later on. Seeing that, it seemed that the head officer had very erratic and abrupt characteristics when supporting his idea. I particularly felt uncomfortable in that the article mentioned his announcement as threat, and I assumed that the reason that some felt 'threatened' was that the head officer put it in very radical numbers. Those lacks of detailed backgrounds and logics made me feel it was like jumping upon any other constraints and realistic senses to support his political fans and powers.


Clapson, Colin. "More night flights at Brussels Airport", Flanders News. July 6, 2014. Web. July 6, 2014



3. Brussels, Berlin Still at Odds over Green Energy Law

 


Short Summary

Germany, Europe's biggest electricity market, has argument over Brussel's idea, one of those countries with different industrial backgrounds, by arguing if consumers will be hurt to pay a surcharge on both domestic and imported electricity but revenue from the surcharge is used only to finance domestic electricity producers, and the Commission says imported electricity may be disadvantaged and made comparatively more expensive.


Persuasive Paragraph

Except some extreme cases, I believe there is no right or wrong answers when it comes to policymaking; every policymaker and counterpart has its own reasonable opinion. This applies to this article as well. Although the Germany is keeping its current policy which seems to go against the global environmental rules, Germany will not feel easy to abandon its great industrial infrastructure to abide by the international laws all of a sudden. This point is where some kind of reconcile should be made for that. Other European countries should wait for Germany to be fully ready for some of the beneficial changes that they suggested. Pushing each other’s idea will only lead to misunderstandings and resistance upon counterparts’ idea.


"Brussels, Berlin still at odds over green energy law", Belgium News Channel. July 4, 2014. Web. July 6, 2014

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