March 14, 2023 - l'Européenne de Bruxelles

Eveon promotes shipping container afterlife

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The Dutch scaleup Eveon is working hard to unlock the market for used shipping containers internationally via an e-commerce platform. After Germany (2020), the United States (2021) and Canada (2022), Eveon is now also active in its home country of the Netherlands. Belgium will follow soon. The plan is to roll out further to dozens of countries in the coming years. The aim is to let more used shipping containers find their way to a second life. This results in a huge CO2 reduction. Eveon is the only fully digital…

SVB collapse unlikely to strike Belgian banks

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The National Bank of Belgium is closely monitoring the situation surrounding the collapse of the American Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). But at the same time, the regulator says that the business model of that bank cannot be compared with that of Belgian banks. The exposure for our country would also be very limited. The exposure is also limited for the entire eurozone, says the Eurogroup. Silicon Valley Bank went under in recent days, according to National Bank director Tom Dechaene in an interview with the time by “a combination of…

Belgium still lags behind in 5G adoption

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The sale of 5G spectrum in Belgium took place quite late. Nevertheless, it seems that our country no longer has a significant backlog. In fact, the rollout of 5G in a B2B context is going very well. Belgium is well into the transformation of 5G. these are not our words: at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we hear positive sounds from all sides. Providers, Infrastructure Partners and even private 5G specialists praise the commitment and strategy of our country. That’s somewhat surprising. After all, our country was very late…