Companies & Start-ups
Ariane van Caloen and Frédéric Chardon
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Published on
03-15-21 at 7:41 p.m.
– Updated
03-15-21 at 7:43 p.m.
The phone call was made on Sunday evening, around 7 p.m. The minister responsible for public enterprises, Petra De Sutter (Groen), has been tasked by the kern to warn the chairman of the board of directors of bpost, François Cornelis, to separate from the CEO Jean-Paul Van Avermaet, in the hot seat for months. In a straightforward way, she explains the decision by a “Conjunction of elements”. The Belgian State, the majority shareholder of bpost, “Had had enough for months”.