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Ladies and gentlemen, here are some of my impressions (feelings)

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And I would like to speak from the heart to my friends at Google.

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In the beginning of this adventure, it was more than five years ago,

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We could not really believe in it.

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And we realised that we had conditions to meet.

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In fact, no just your arrival/installation here is an adventure [...]

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but also a triumph of the will to beat defaitisme by optimism.

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Nothing is easy.

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But thanks to your desire to implant yourself in Europe

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[...]

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And also because the opportunities on offer in the European Union

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That we offer in the Walloon region,

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The regional desire to make things happen

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You needed a terrain, you needed water, you needed workers needed, you needed this and that ...

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But you managed.

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By installing yourselves here, you not only found conditions

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[...] and I have seen some reports on the quality of the businesses that are working for you

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[...] inside the house there are also certain jobs, also for people from this region

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With amongst others [...]

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As an aside ... I am like Oscar Wilde, I can resist to everything but temptation ...

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You know, it was not long ago, and there are always people like this, some critique everything.

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They critiqued the Mons gare, and other installations.

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And they critiqued Google, saying: there are no jobs, and those are not people from here!

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And I said, I am sure, there will be. And today we can see, there are.

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So I would like to say to everyone that spends their lives critiquing: Only those who [entreprend], go forward.

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And also, the derived effects of the installation of Google are enormous. But I will not go into details.

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But maybe the most important is, that we have done what we could.

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The minister of the region has reminded us. The mayor has done his work.

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The college, each of us have done what we could.

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But you can not imagine, responsibles of Google, what you have brought us.

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The fact that you have decided to install yourselves here, has unlocked the writing of a new page in our history.

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We were tired, a bit bent because we have experienced terrible ordeals. I will not go into details.

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And then ... when you arrived, we did not really know for sure ... but when we said it was Google

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Suddenly I saw torsos straighten.

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I have seen women and men respond: If Google arrives, something will happen.

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And in fact, things have happened.

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What has happened?

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Google, Mons 2015

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Candidature Google was positive

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You symbolise the future

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To have given the spirit back to young people

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Merci!