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Maurits Vande Reyde wrote that Europe, in his opinion, would never match the US in terms of innovation. He pointed to overregulation, too many subsidies, high taxes, and a climate where the media and a large part of the power holders viewed entrepreneurs as a source to finance high government spending. Vande Reyde also stated that people in his country were portrayed as crazy when they admired Elon Musk as an entrepreneur. He accused fact-checker Tim Verheyden of regularly spreading fabricated stories about Musk and said that this, in his opinion, said a lot about the state of Europe. #Innovatie #Ondernemerschap #Europa (translated)

Stefan Willems (Stock Exchange/Expat) wrote that Belgium once led the way with the flying sphere of Professor Gobelijn, although that came from a fictional Jommeke comic book. He said he was jealous of the entrepreneurship in the US and the continuous flow of new ideas, no matter how bizarre. Willems asked when Belgium last came up with bold inventions or ideas on a large scale and said that last year's capital gains tax on investments did not count. According to him, the country was comparable to a broadcaster that had been airing reruns of De Kampioenen for 35 years when it came to taking risks. #ondernemerschap #innovatie #België (translated)

Mona Keijzer wrote that entrepreneurs in the border region were being outcompeted, while Dilan Yeşilgöz said that work was being done on it. Keijzer stated that her proposals to lower the excise duty on gasoline and the VAT on flowers were ready and asked if the VVD would vote for them. https://t.co/BU624rqcmA #ondernemerschap #grensgebied #VVD (translated)

Forum for Democracy wrote that PRO wanted to abolish the possibility for entrepreneurs to borrow money from their own private limited company. According to the party, Milan Schenk wondered whether left-wing people realized the consequences of such measures. The party accused socialists of financial ignorance and stated that the left depicted Dutch people who arranged their own retirement provisions as enemies. #Economie #Ondernemerschap #Politiek (translated)

Julien De Wit wrote that a colleague had posted his testimony on LinkedIn and that he found it worth sharing. The self-employed individual mentioned that he had received chemotherapy with Taxotere and Cyclophosphamide three years earlier, followed by radiotherapy. A month after his last radiation treatment, he had returned to work, although his supervising doctor thought it was too soon according to him. He had quickly reduced his replacement income of about 40 euros per day. The colleague wrote that he worked as a self-employed individual without staff through a company and had no fixed salary, paid sick leave, or vacation pay. If he was sick or took a holiday, he earned nothing. With a full schedule ahead, he was afraid of getting sick this month, he wrote. He opposed what he considered to be negative perceptions of self-employed individuals with a management company and called for respect for the risks they themselves bore. https://t.co/JNrZ60Kq3n #zelfstandigen #ondernemen #respect (translated)

The new Self-Employed Law, which comes into effect in 2028, aims to provide clarity for self-employed individuals and clients by establishing specific conditions for self-employment, including the requirement for self-employed individuals to register with the Chamber of Commerce and work for at least three different clients within two years. #Zelfstandigenwet #zzp #werkgevers (translated)

Best @Minister_FIN, just a serious remark regarding the presented plans. As if a 36% corporate tax on profits starting from 1000 euros is not enough, now a maximum of 100,000 euros can be borrowed from one's own limited liability company instead of 500,000 euros. This means that many entrepreneurs who still have debt with their own limited liability companies will face huge problems if this is retroactive; after all, if there had been a possibility to pay off that debt, it would have been done already. Moreover, many are currently in the middle of a multi-year plan to pay off because that limit had already been lowered to 700,000 in 2023 and to 500,000 in 2024. These people have had to sell assets, often their own home, to pay the taxes owed. And now they want to limit it to 100,000 euros? That's fine for new loans starting from that date, but not retroactively; that would be a death sentence for many entrepreneurs. I hope you understand this? I assume you do not intentionally want to put a noose around these people's necks? #belasting #ondernemerschap #financien (translated)

Ruben Brekebeen, you have consciously signed for the capitulation of entrepreneurial Netherlands today. A massive capital flight is now underway, the damage is no longer conceivable. September 29, 2026: "A date which will live in infamy" for entrepreneurial Netherlands and for the @VVD #ondernemerschap #kapitaalvlucht #VVD (translated)

Eerst is er ondernemerschap. De economie groeit. Dan komt welvaart. Dan herverdeling. Te veel herverdeling doet de groei stagneren. Dan wordt er nog meer herverdeeld, van steeds minder. Dan begint het economisch verval. Europa (België) moet opletten dat het die spiraal niet verder ingaat. #ondernemerschap #economie #welvaart

Mijn hemel, ik zie een stukje Gerrit Hiemstra bij Jinek. Hij doet me denken aan de man op een zeepkist die het einde van de wereld voorspelt. Geloof geen valse profeten. De wereld gaat niet stuk door klimaatverandering, maar door het veel te dure klimaatbeleid dat NIETS oplost. Het klimaat verandert altijd. En de invloed van de mens is niet significant. De mens kan niet voor God spelen. Juist de nieuwe generatie is zich hiervan bewust en focust zich op problemen die we wél kunnen beïnvloeden. Zoals de woningnood. Een overheid die in bijna alles ons leven wil bepalen. En vrij ondernemerschap belemmert. En ook een niveau van immigratie die ons land niet meer aankan. #klimaat #beleid #woningnood

Vandaag werkbezoek in @provzeeland met Statenleden @BBBZeeland. Een van de bedrijven die we bezochten is @FlikweertVision in Nieuwerkerk. Opgezet door Stefan en Martijn Flikweert toen ze 23 en 21 waren. Ze ontwikkelden uien- en aardappelsorteerders. Nu wereldwijd toonaangevend https://t.co/sHppfdJ5PB #werkbezoek #innovatie #ondernemerschap

Nederlanders werken hard, maar houden steeds minder over. "Dat is de verkeerde koers", aldus BBB-fractievoorzitter Henk Vermeer op de ramingen van het CPB. "Nederland moet weer bouwen aan wat ons sterk maakt: landbouw, maakindustrie en ondernemerschap." https://t.co/Jol0obATvQ https://t.co/Zd4Djy5IP6 #Nederland #Economie #Duurzaamheid

Op naar #DenBosch en morgen op de fiets naar het Provinciehuis om onze steun te geven aan 5 ondernemers die hun bedrijf dreigen kwijt te raken. Dat een vergunning wordt ingetrokken zonder dat ze de wet is overtreden is echt onacceptabel! #redthetplatteland #boerenprotest https://t.co/zCOW9I1Kjj #DenBosch #ondernemerschap #protest

Het heeft even geduurd, maar ook @VNONCW ziet nu het gevaar! Niet alleen 5 bedrijven in Brabant. Ook in Friesland wordt aan onherroepelijke vergunningen getornd. Dit gaat allang niet meer alleen over boeren. Dit gaat over rechtszekerheid voor iedere ondernemer. En Den Haag? Oorverdovend stil. Niemand Vogelvrij! Vandaag de boer. Morgen jij. https://t.co/NQXXLPystx #ondernemerschap #rechtszekerheid #boeren