As of today, non-essential stores are allowed to reopen. The message from Minister of Health Frank Vandenbroucke (SP.A) is clear: mayors are responsible for ensuring that this is done in a safe manner. If they fail, everything will be locked again. But that causes resentment. “It is very easy to lecture us from Brussels”, says Ostend mayor Bart Tommelein (Open VLD).
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Yesterday it was all hands on deck in the shopping streets. Everything was prepared for today’s grand reopening. But while the shopkeepers prepared the last alcohol gel in the shopping street, …
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