Philippe Muyters: new kid on the block

It was an offer he couldn’t refuse. Philippe Muyters swore he would never go into politics, but when the then head of the Flemish chamber of commerce was asked by party colleague Bart de Wever to act as Flemish minister of finance, budget, work, town planning and sports, he rode the N-VA popularity wave into office. Then he faced the toughest two professional years of his life, he tells on the front page of Flanders Today.