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Prince Filip of Belgium is on an economic visit to Egypt the next days. Post all informtion, pictures etc. about the visit in this thread.
Does anyboy now how many business(wo)men accompany the prince on such a visit and if it actually has any success (I suppose it has otherwise they would have stopped it).
The main criticism in SFA was about his repeated speeches indeed, but they also aimed at his performance as being disinterested, wooden, clumsy, etc. pp. His critics, who mocked him for not knowing their names and closing doors instead of opening them, remained anonymous though and had some unrealistic ideas about Philippe´s impact – in the end they have to take care for making contracts themselves. But nevertheless they had a point: With hindsight it turned out that Philippe was completely stressed out by the overprotective and patronizing manner of his advisors and ended up fighting with them during the mission, a most unfortunate timing for doing so.Thats sounds pretty impressive actually, I think that this is actually a way to make these visits work and be useful. Sometimes I seriously doubt what the use is, of WA and Maxima to New Zealand for example (nice pictures, but what else?) or a Dutch state visit to Belgium (weren't the relations between the countries excellent already?), so it is good to see that the economic missions are working.
The critisism was only on the speeches of the prince, right? Not on the concept of the economic visits as such?