In 2016 there were 114,200 of them, Belgians with investable assets (shares, bonds, funds, cash …) worth at least 1 million American dollars, or approximately 850,000 euros.
From next year, holiday-makers travelling with the travel agency Thomas Cook, which also owns Neckermann and Pégase, will be able to fly with in a Brussels Airlines airplane.
Seraing was a village of only 2000 inhabitants, mainly agricultural labourers, artisans and coal miners, when John Cockerill arrived in 1817. The young Englishman was 27 when he arrived.