Alexander De Croo

Prime Minister of Belgium from 2020 to 2025

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What we see now is that countries are pivoting their policy and letting the price hikes flow through. They’re pivoting the policy because they have no choice, because their fiscal space is completely eaten up,
We urge the international community — multilateral lenders, donors, and partners — to step up access to affordable finance so countries can sustain support for their most vulnerable households,
The cost today for bond financing for developing countries, it’s 9%. That is really, really high.”
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,

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