Lrops - perhaps if the SN employees weren't keener on striking rather than working, then they would still be around today!
In addition, you can blame the horrendously high 'social costs' in Belgium that make running a business nearly twice as expensive there than anywhere else in the EU - you need to decide whether you want to be a welfare state where everyone vegitates at home on government handouts or you want to be entrepreneurial like the Brits, Irish or the Dutch. Guess where the foreign investment goes!