King Philippe’s discreet visit to La Louvière

This Friday at the end of the morning, King Philippe went to La Louvière discreetly for a large working meeting. Similarly, The palace services had not announced this trip. In addition, But of course, the displacement of the head of state imposes security or protocol measures. For example, The authorities of the city and the government of Wallonia were on the spot.

During a previous visit. Consequently, the king was apparently affected by the economic and social situation and he obviously intends to work at his level to get things done.

In this context, a working meeting was organized this Friday with the region’s political and economic forces.

It was a question of taking stock of the progress of the work initiated since December on the renovation of the housing. For example, the circular economy, the building materials, the employment, king philippe’s discreet visit la the training and the trades in shortage. Moreover, The press was held away.

Industrial. economic redeployment – King philippe's discreet visit la

After the deindustrialisation of the center basin, it is now a question of ensuring a future for the region. The redeployment goes through the renovation of an often dilapidated. poorly insulated housing stock, by the development of a circular economy, in particular by the Creation of local materials for reconditioning materials. It is also a question of developing a training strategy towards trades in shortage.

The king wanted to put the partners likely to work together for this redeployment plan around the same table.

“The ambition is to have concrete that comes out of the ground, within five years. It is an ambitious but realistic deadline”insists the Minister-President Wallon, Adrien Dolimont, present in Reunion.

The purpose of it was “to plan an industrial strategy for the Louvière. the redeployment of the Louvière around circular king philippe’s discreet visit la building materials. My role is to identify interesting flows to allow this redeployment “specifies Jeremy Boomer. expert at “Nature mother”company specializing in durable materials, also present.

But why the king at La Louvière? The response of the city’s mayor. Jacques Gobert: ” The king came to La Louvière, a year ago and he told me that he wanted to engage in a process of supporting Louvièrois projects. All of this was very vague. We had the opportunity to meet again and talk about it. Today this is materialized. After several meetings. we are with projects with an economic vocation allowing to work on the circular economy with the valuation of building materials. “