Alexander De Croo

Prime Minister of Belgium from 2020 to 2025

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I still stand behind what I said years ago. There was a need in Europe to increase defense spending,
With the temperatures that you would get here, that would lead to circumstances which would be really close to humanitarian catastrophe,
We are working together with the Afghan authorities to see how we can make economic activity here in Afghanistan investable. Now we need to be clear, private investment is not going to solve everything, so you need a certain level of public investment, but you will use it in a very prudent way and try to use it as much as a lever to unlock private investment,
In Afghanistan, there is never a crisis just on its own,
The Ukrainians have rewritten the playbook in many domains,
If now the international community turns its back to Afghanistan, the consequences will not only be in Afghanistan. The consequences will be much, much broader,

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