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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

Belgian Streetcar Renaissance

2 March, 1999 - 00:00

By Vadym RYZHKOV, The Day
Over a hundred Belgian business people are coming to Dnipropetrovsk in
early May to meet local industrialists and entrepreneurs. It was disclosed
during a visit to Dnipropetrovsk by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of Belgium to Ukraine Pierre Vaesen.

The city authorities promised to submit later in March a list of their
proposals as to Belgian participation in city development projects, including
automotive and electric transport. The latter provoked a special interest
among the guests. For it is Belgian companies that built the first streetcar
lines here well before the 1917 revolution. The Belgians also owned in
the city a number of still-functioning large steel mills and some Nikopol
basin manganese mines. The ambassador said Belgium had not forgotten this.
Yet, today there is not a single Ukrainian-Belgian joint venture in Dnipropetrovsk
oblast.

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