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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88" title="ألكسندر دي كرو – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ألكسندر دي كرو" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_De_Kro" title="Aleksandr De Kro – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Aleksandr De Kro" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80_%D0%94%D1%8D_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Аляксандр Дэ Кро – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Аляксандр Дэ Кро" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%94%D0%B5_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%BE" title="Александер Де Кро – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Александер Де Кро" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%BE%CE%AC%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%81_%CE%9D%CF%84%CE%B5_%CE%9A%CF%81%CE%BF" title="Αλεξάντερ Ντε Κρο – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Αλεξάντερ Ντε Κρο" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%AF%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88" title="الکساندر دی کرو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="الکساندر دی کرو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo mw-list-item"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Føroyskt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%8C%EB%A0%89%EC%82%B0%EB%8D%94%EB%A5%B4_%EB%8D%94%ED%81%AC%EB%A1%9C" title="알렉산더르 더크로 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="알렉산더르 더크로" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B1%D5%AC%D5%A5%D6%84%D5%BD%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A4%D6%80_%D4%B4%D5%A5_%D4%BF%D6%80%D5%B8" title="Ալեքսանդր Դե Կրո – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ալեքսանդր Դե Կրո" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8_%D7%93%D7%94-%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%95" title="אלכסנדר דה-קרו – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אלכסנדר דה-קרו" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88" title="الكسندر دى كرو – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="الكسندر دى كرو" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC" title="アレクサンダー・デ・クロー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="アレクサンダー・デ・クロー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_De_Croo" title="Alexander De Croo – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Alexander De Croo" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B5_%D0%9A%D1%80%D0%BE,_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%80" title="Де Кро, Александр – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Де Кро, Александр" data-language-autonym="Русский" 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class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">Alexander De Croo</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Alexander_De_croo_Official_Portrait.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Alexander_De_croo_Official_Portrait.png/220px-Alexander_De_croo_Official_Portrait.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Alexander_De_croo_Official_Portrait.png/330px-Alexander_De_croo_Official_Portrait.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Alexander_De_croo_Official_Portrait.png/440px-Alexander_De_croo_Official_Portrait.png 2x" data-file-width="576" data-file-height="768" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Official portrait, 2020</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Belgium" title="Prime Minister of Belgium">Prime Minister of Belgium</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1 October 2020 – 3 February 2025</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Philippe_of_Belgium" title="Philippe of Belgium">Philippe</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="collapsible-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align: left;"> <div style="line-height: 1.6em; font-weight: bold;"><div><i>See list</i></div></div> <ul class="mw-collapsible-content" style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin-left: 0;"><li style="line-height: inherit; margin: 0"><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Van_Peteghem" title="Vincent Van Peteghem">Vincent Van Peteghem</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Georges_Gilkinet" title="Georges Gilkinet">Georges Gilkinet</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Petra_De_Sutter" title="Petra De Sutter">Petra De Sutter</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Wilm%C3%A8s" title="Sophie Wilmès">Sophie Wilmès</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Van_Quickenborne" title="Vincent Van Quickenborne">Vincent Van Quickenborne</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Yves_Dermagne" title="Pierre-Yves Dermagne">Pierre-Yves Dermagne</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Frank_Vandenbroucke_(politician)" title="Frank Vandenbroucke (politician)">Frank Vandenbroucke</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/David_Clarinval" title="David Clarinval">David Clarinval</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sophie_Wilm%C3%A8s" title="Sophie Wilmès">Sophie Wilmès</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bart_De_Wever" title="Bart De Wever">Bart De Wever</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(Belgium)" title="Minister of Finance (Belgium)">Minister of Finance</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />9 December 2018 – 1 October 2020</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Michel" title="Charles Michel">Charles Michel</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sophie_Wilm%C3%A8s" title="Sophie Wilmès">Sophie Wilmès</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Johan_Van_Overtveldt" title="Johan Van Overtveldt">Johan Van Overtveldt</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Van_Peteghem" title="Vincent Van Peteghem">Vincent Van Peteghem</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Development_Cooperation_(Belgium)" title="Minister of Development Cooperation (Belgium)">Minister of Development Cooperation</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />11 October 2014 – 1 October 2020</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Michel" title="Charles Michel">Charles Michel</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sophie_Wilm%C3%A8s" title="Sophie Wilmès">Sophie Wilmès</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jean-Pascal_Labille&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jean-Pascal Labille (page does not exist)">Jean-Pascal Labille</a><sup class="noprint" style="font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pascal_Labille" class="extiw" title="fr:Jean-Pascal Labille">fr</a>]</sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Meryame_Kitir" title="Meryame Kitir">Meryame Kitir</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Government_of_Belgium" title="Federal Government of Belgium">Minister for the Digital Agenda, Telecommunications and Postal service</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />11 October 2014 – 9 December 2018</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Michel" title="Charles Michel">Charles Michel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">None</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Philippe_De_Backer" title="Philippe De Backer">Philippe De Backer</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Federal_Government_of_Belgium" title="Federal Government of Belgium">Minister of Pensions</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />22 October 2012 – 11 October 2014</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Elio_Di_Rupo" title="Elio Di Rupo">Elio Di Rupo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Van_Quickenborne" title="Vincent Van Quickenborne">Vincent Van Quickenborne</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Bacquelaine" title="Daniel Bacquelaine">Daniel Bacquelaine</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />22 October 2012 – 1 October 2020</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Elio_Di_Rupo" title="Elio Di Rupo">Elio Di Rupo</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Charles_Michel" title="Charles Michel">Charles Michel</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Sophie_Wilm%C3%A8s" title="Sophie Wilmès">Sophie Wilmès</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Van_Quickenborne" title="Vincent Van Quickenborne">Vincent Van Quickenborne</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Van_Quickenborne" title="Vincent Van Quickenborne">Vincent Van Quickenborne</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Leader of the <a href="/wiki/Open_Vlaamse_Liberalen_en_Democraten" class="mw-redirect" title="Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten">Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />12 December 2009 – 22 October 2012</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Van_Quickenborne" title="Vincent Van Quickenborne">Vincent Van Quickenborne</a><br /><a href="/w/index.php?title=Patricia_Ceysens&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patricia Ceysens (page does not exist)">Patricia Ceysens</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Ceysens" class="extiw" title="nl:Patricia Ceysens">nl</a>]</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Guy_Verhofstadt" title="Guy Verhofstadt">Guy Verhofstadt</a> (acting)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Guy_Verhofstadt" title="Guy Verhofstadt">Guy Verhofstadt</a> (acting)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1975-11-03</span>) </span>3 November 1975<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 49)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Vilvoorde" title="Vilvoorde">Vilvoorde</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flanders" title="Flanders">Flanders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Open_Vlaamse_Liberalen_en_Democraten" class="mw-redirect" title="Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten">Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Annik Penders</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit_Brussel" title="Vrije Universiteit Brussel">Vrije Universiteit Brussel</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Science" title="Master of Science">MSc</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Business_Administration" title="Master of Business Administration">MBA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alexanderdecroo.be">www<wbr />.alexanderdecroo<wbr />.be</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Alexander De Croo</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Dutch:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="nl-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Dutch" title="Help:IPA/Dutch">[aːlɛkˈsɑndər<span class="wrap"> </span>də<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈkroː]</a></span>; born 3 November 1975) is a Belgian politician and businessman who served as <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Belgium" title="Prime Minister of Belgium">Prime Minister of Belgium</a> from 2020 to 2025. Previously from 2012 to 2020, De Croo serve as <a href="/wiki/Deputy_prime_minister" title="Deputy prime minister">deputy prime minister</a> governments of <a href="/wiki/Elio_Di_Rupo" title="Elio Di Rupo">Elio Di Rupo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Michel" title="Charles Michel">Charles Michel</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Wilm%C3%A8s" title="Sophie Wilmès">Sophie Wilmès</a>. During his tenure as deputy prime minister he served as the Minister of Pensions from 2012 to 2014, as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Development_Cooperation_(Belgium)" title="Minister of Development Cooperation (Belgium)">Minister of Development Cooperation</a> from 2014 to 2020, and as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(Belgium)" title="Minister of Finance (Belgium)">Minister of Finance</a> from 2018 to 2020. On 1 October 2020, over a year after the <a href="/wiki/2019_Belgian_federal_election" title="2019 Belgian federal election">2019 federal elections</a>, the <a href="/wiki/De_Croo_Government" title="De Croo Government">De Croo Government</a> was formed to replace <a href="/wiki/Wilm%C3%A8s_II_Government" title="Wilmès II Government">Wilmès' minority government</a>, with De Croo as prime minister. </p><p>De Croo was born in <a href="/wiki/Vilvoorde" title="Vilvoorde">Vilvoorde</a> and studied <a href="/wiki/Business_engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Business engineering">business engineering</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit_Brussel" title="Vrije Universiteit Brussel">Vrije Universiteit Brussel</a> before attaining an <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Business_Administration" title="Master of Business Administration">MBA</a> at <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a> in the United States. He worked for <a href="/wiki/Boston_Consulting_Group" title="Boston Consulting Group">Boston Consulting Group</a> before starting his own company, Darts-ip, in 2006. De Croo became involved with the Belgian political party <a href="/wiki/Open_Vlaamse_Liberalen_en_Democraten" class="mw-redirect" title="Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten">Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten</a> (Open VLD), of which he was chairman from 2009 to 2012. </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/2024_Belgian_federal_election" title="2024 Belgian federal election">2024 Belgian federal election</a>, De Croo and <a href="/wiki/Open_Flemish_Liberals_and_Democrats" title="Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats">his party</a> suffered a major electoral defeat. De Croo announced his resignation on 9 June 2024. De Croo remained as <a href="/wiki/Caretaker_government" title="Caretaker government">caretaker</a> prime minister until the <a href="/wiki/De_Wever_Government" title="De Wever Government">new government</a> was formed on 3 February 2025, being succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Bart_De_Wever" title="Bart De Wever">Bart De Wever</a>, leader of the <a href="/wiki/N-VA" class="mw-redirect" title="N-VA">N-VA</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_career">Early life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alexander De Croo was born on 3 November 1975 in <a href="/wiki/Vilvoorde" title="Vilvoorde">Vilvoorde</a> in <a href="/wiki/Flemish_Brabant" title="Flemish Brabant">Flemish Brabant</a>, Belgium,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was one of two children of the politician and <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_State_(Belgium)" title="Minister of State (Belgium)">Minister of State</a> <a href="/wiki/Herman_De_Croo" title="Herman De Croo">Herman De Croo</a> and his wife Françoise Desguin.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1993, he attended the <a href="/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit_Brussel" title="Vrije Universiteit Brussel">Vrije Universiteit Brussel</a> where he graduated in 1998 in Business Engineering. He attended <a href="/wiki/Northwestern_University" title="Northwestern University">Northwestern University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Evanston,_Illinois" title="Evanston, Illinois">Evanston, Illinois</a>, in 2002, and completed an <a href="/wiki/MBA" class="mw-redirect" title="MBA">MBA</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Kellogg_School_of_Management" title="Kellogg School of Management">Kellogg School of Management</a> in 2004. Prior to his political career, De Croo became a project leader at <a href="/wiki/Boston_Consulting_Group" title="Boston Consulting Group">Boston Consulting Group</a> in 1999. In 2006 he founded a new company called Darts-ip that specialized in providing services to intellectual property professionals.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_political_career">Early political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2009, De Croo participated for the first time in politics, standing in the <a href="/wiki/2009_European_Parliament_election_in_Belgium" title="2009 European Parliament election in Belgium">2009 European elections</a>. He received more than 47,000 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-vrt_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vrt-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 26 October, De Croo became a candidate for the <a href="/wiki/Party_chair" title="Party chair">presidency</a> of his political party, <a href="/wiki/Open_Flemish_Liberals_and_Democrats" title="Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats">Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats</a> (Open VLD), to succeed the transitional party president, <a href="/wiki/Guy_Verhofstadt" title="Guy Verhofstadt">Guy Verhofstadt</a>. He chose <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Van_Quickenborne" title="Vincent Van Quickenborne">Vincent Van Quickenborne</a> and Patricia Ceysens as his running mates to compete against <a href="/wiki/Marino_Keulen" title="Marino Keulen">Marino Keulen</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gwendolyn_Rutten" title="Gwendolyn Rutten">Gwendolyn Rutten</a>. On 12 December, he was elected president in the second round with 11,676 votes; Marino Keulen received 9,614 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His election was considered remarkable as he had almost no previous experience as a politician.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_crisis">Political crisis</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political crisis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Five months after being elected party leader, De Croo threatened to withdraw the Open VLD from the governing coalition if there was no solution to the constitutional dispute in the <a href="/wiki/Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde#Negotiations_and_attempts_to_split_BHV" title="Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde">Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde</a> voting issue. After Open VLD's deadline passed the party left the government and then <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Belgium" title="Prime Minister of Belgium">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Yves_Leterme" title="Yves Leterme">Yves Leterme</a> announced the government's resignation. This was accepted by King <a href="/wiki/Albert_II_of_Belgium" title="Albert II of Belgium">Albert II</a> on 26 April 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/2010_Belgian_federal_election#Senate" title="2010 Belgian federal election">elections for the Senate in 2010</a>, De Croo obtained more than 301,000 votes, the third most in the Dutch-speaking constituency<sup id="cite_ref-vrt_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vrt-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and served as a senator until 22 October 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career_in_government">Career in government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Career in government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Part_of_the_Di_Rupo_government">Part of the Di Rupo government</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Part of the Di Rupo government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>De Croo succeeded Van Quickenborne in the <a href="/wiki/Di_Rupo_Government" title="Di Rupo Government">Di Rupo Government</a> as deputy prime minister and Minister of Pensions on 22 October 2012<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after Van Quickenborne resigned to become mayor of <a href="/wiki/Kortrijk" title="Kortrijk">Kortrijk</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December Gwendolyn Rutten was elected as the new chairwoman of Open VLD.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Part_of_the_Michel_I_and_II_governments">Part of the Michel I and II governments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Part of the Michel I and II governments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After the <a href="/wiki/2014_Belgian_federal_election" title="2014 Belgian federal election">2014 Belgian federal election</a> and its <a href="/wiki/2014_Belgian_government_formation" title="2014 Belgian government formation">Federal Government formation</a>, it was decided that he would remain deputy prime minister in the newly formed <a href="/wiki/Michel_I_Government" title="Michel I Government">Michel I Government</a>. De Croo also became Minister of Development Cooperation, Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal Services<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10_October_2014_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10_October_2014-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Bacquelaine" title="Daniel Bacquelaine">Daniel Bacquelaine</a> took over from him as Minister of Pensions.<sup id="cite_ref-10_October_2014_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10_October_2014-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This government took office on 11 October 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During De Croo's time in office, Belgium became the first country to suspend <a href="/wiki/Official_development_assistance" title="Official development assistance">official development assistance</a> to <a href="/wiki/Burundi" title="Burundi">Burundi</a> after the beginning of <a href="/wiki/Burundian_unrest_(2015%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="Burundian unrest (2015–present)">violent unrest</a> in the African country from 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2017, De Croo pledged €25 million ($26.81 million) through 2025 to eradicate <a href="/wiki/African_trypanosomiasis" title="African trypanosomiasis">African sleeping sickness</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also was one of the founders of the She Decides movement, a reaction against the re-installation of the <a href="/wiki/Mexico_City_Policy" class="mw-redirect" title="Mexico City Policy">Mexico City Policy</a> by President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After a disagreement within the government over the UN <a href="/wiki/Global_Compact_for_Migration" title="Global Compact for Migration">Global Compact for Migration</a>, the <a href="/wiki/N-VA" class="mw-redirect" title="N-VA">N-VA</a> left the governing coalition, causing the administration to become a minority government on 9 December 2018, known as <a href="/wiki/Michel_II_Government" title="Michel II Government">Michel II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> De Croo became Minister of Finance, replacing <a href="/wiki/Johan_Van_Overtveldt" title="Johan Van Overtveldt">Johan Van Overtveldt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2018, De Croo took the stage during the <a href="/wiki/Global_Citizen_Festival" title="Global Citizen Festival">Global Citizen Festival</a> Mandela 100 concert in <a href="/wiki/Johannesburg" title="Johannesburg">Johannesburg</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Africa" title="South Africa">South Africa</a>. It was the final event of the international campaign #SheIsEqual for women's rights which attracted €780 million in commitments.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Part_of_the_Wilmès_I_and_II_governments"><span id="Part_of_the_Wilm.C3.A8s_I_and_II_governments"></span>Part of the Wilmès I and II governments</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Part of the Wilmès I and II governments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Under the <a href="/wiki/Wilm%C3%A8s_I_Government" title="Wilmès I Government">caretaker administration</a> of Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Sophie_Wilm%C3%A8s" title="Sophie Wilmès">Sophie Wilmès</a>, he oversaw a financial stimulus package to tackle the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Belgium" title="COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium">COVID-19 crisis</a> and a deal to save <a href="/wiki/Brussels_Airlines" title="Brussels Airlines">Brussels Airlines</a> in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected joint deputy chairman of Open VLD, together with <a href="/wiki/Egbert_Lachaert" title="Egbert Lachaert">Egbert Lachaert</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Premiership_(2020–2025)"><span id="Premiership_.282020.E2.80.932025.29"></span>Premiership (2020–2025)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Premiership (2020–2025)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P20210615CS_CW23444_(51269151389).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/P20210615CS_CW23444_%2851269151389%29.jpg/220px-P20210615CS_CW23444_%2851269151389%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/P20210615CS_CW23444_%2851269151389%29.jpg/330px-P20210615CS_CW23444_%2851269151389%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/P20210615CS_CW23444_%2851269151389%29.jpg/440px-P20210615CS_CW23444_%2851269151389%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5879" data-file-height="3919" /></a><figcaption>De Croo with U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> and King <a href="/wiki/Philippe_of_Belgium" title="Philippe of Belgium">Philippe</a>, 15 June 2021</figcaption></figure> <p>On 23 September 2020, Alexander De Croo and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Magnette" title="Paul Magnette">Paul Magnette</a> (<a href="/wiki/Parti_Socialiste_(Belgium)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parti Socialiste (Belgium)">PS</a>) were appointed by the King to form a government.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 30 September 2020, it was announced that De Croo would take over the position of prime minister, succeeding Wilmès.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The formation of the Belgian government (Vivaldi) took a considerable amount of time. The book <i>De doodgravers van België</i> by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wouter_Verschelden&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wouter Verschelden (page does not exist)">Wouter Verschelden</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Verschelden" class="extiw" title="nl:Wouter Verschelden">nl</a>]</span> states that the main reason for the prolonged negotiations was a scandal about communication between De Croo and an Italian pornographic film actress.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 2021, <i><a href="/wiki/Corriere_della_Sera" title="Corriere della Sera">Corriere della Sera</a></i> quoted statements by the implicated actress, claiming that De Croo had messaged her seeking a meeting and that they had not met, but had continued to exchange messages.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> De Croo's government has a higher proportion of women ministers than any previous Belgian government: half of the ministers are women.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2021, he visited the site of the <a href="/wiki/Antwerp_building_collapse" title="Antwerp building collapse">Antwerp building collapse</a> with King <a href="/wiki/Philippe_of_Belgium" title="Philippe of Belgium">Philippe of Belgium</a> and spoke to emergency workers.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Isaac_Herzog_in_Beit_HaNassi,_November_2023_(ABG_0730).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Isaac_Herzog_in_Beit_HaNassi%2C_November_2023_%28ABG_0730%29.jpg/220px-Isaac_Herzog_in_Beit_HaNassi%2C_November_2023_%28ABG_0730%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Isaac_Herzog_in_Beit_HaNassi%2C_November_2023_%28ABG_0730%29.jpg/330px-Isaac_Herzog_in_Beit_HaNassi%2C_November_2023_%28ABG_0730%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Isaac_Herzog_in_Beit_HaNassi%2C_November_2023_%28ABG_0730%29.jpg/440px-Isaac_Herzog_in_Beit_HaNassi%2C_November_2023_%28ABG_0730%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3240" data-file-height="2160" /></a><figcaption>De Croo with Israeli President <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Herzog" title="Isaac Herzog">Isaac Herzog</a> and Spanish Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Pedro_S%C3%A1nchez" title="Pedro Sánchez">Pedro Sánchez</a> in Jerusalem, Israel, 23 November 2023</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Emmanuel_Macron_(cop28_1782).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Emmanuel_Macron_%28cop28_1782%29.jpg/220px-Emmanuel_Macron_%28cop28_1782%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Emmanuel_Macron_%28cop28_1782%29.jpg/330px-Emmanuel_Macron_%28cop28_1782%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Emmanuel_Macron_%28cop28_1782%29.jpg/440px-Emmanuel_Macron_%28cop28_1782%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5387" data-file-height="3591" /></a><figcaption>De Croo with IAEA Director General <a href="/wiki/Rafael_Grossi" title="Rafael Grossi">Rafael Grossi</a> and French President <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron" title="Emmanuel Macron">Emmanuel Macron</a> in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2 December 2023</figcaption></figure> <p>In February 2022, the government adopted a law to make the labour market more flexible: employees have the option, provided that their company agrees, of switching to a four-day week. In return, their working days would be extended to 9.5 hours (corresponding to a 38-hour week). The law also makes working hours between 8 p.m. and midnight more flexible, as they are no longer considered as night work and do not give employees entitlement to any compensation.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The government wants to increase <a href="/wiki/Military_spending" class="mw-redirect" title="Military spending">military spending</a> to 2 per cent of GDP in order to comply with the demands of <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> and the U.S. government, which is causing tension within its coalition. The right-wing supports the plan, but the ecologists are opposed, arguing that the government should have other priorities than the military, while the socialists remain undecided.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 26 November 2022, De Croo and foreign minister <a href="/wiki/Hadja_Lahbib" title="Hadja Lahbib">Hadja Lahbib</a> visited Ukraine, meeting Ukrainian president <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy" title="Volodymyr Zelenskyy">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</a> and pledging continued Belgian support to Ukraine.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2023, De Croo called the Israeli bombing campaign in the <a href="/wiki/Gaza_Strip" title="Gaza Strip">Gaza Strip</a> "disproportionate", but said that "Belgium will not take sides" in the <a href="/wiki/2023_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Israel–Hamas war">Israel–Hamas war</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Israeli government accused him of "supporting terrorism".<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Visit_of_Ursula_von_der_Leyen_to_Ukraine,_24.02.24_(39).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Visit_of_Ursula_von_der_Leyen_to_Ukraine%2C_24.02.24_%2839%29.jpg/220px-Visit_of_Ursula_von_der_Leyen_to_Ukraine%2C_24.02.24_%2839%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Visit_of_Ursula_von_der_Leyen_to_Ukraine%2C_24.02.24_%2839%29.jpg/330px-Visit_of_Ursula_von_der_Leyen_to_Ukraine%2C_24.02.24_%2839%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Visit_of_Ursula_von_der_Leyen_to_Ukraine%2C_24.02.24_%2839%29.jpg/440px-Visit_of_Ursula_von_der_Leyen_to_Ukraine%2C_24.02.24_%2839%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2667" /></a><figcaption>De Croo with President of the European Commission <a href="/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen" title="Ursula von der Leyen">Ursula von der Leyen</a> and Ukrainian President <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy" title="Volodymyr Zelenskyy">Volodymyr Zelenskyy</a> in Kyiv, Ukraine, 24 February 2024</figcaption></figure> <p>On 26 February 2024 DeCroo travelled to Paris, where <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron" title="Emmanuel Macron">Emmanuel Macron</a> was holding an emergency summit over the situation in <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>, as they had just suffered the loss of <a href="/wiki/Avdiivka" title="Avdiivka">Avdiivka</a>. Czech PM <a href="/wiki/Petr_Fiala" title="Petr Fiala">Petr Fiala</a> proposed the purchase of 500,000 rounds of artillery ammunition for <a href="/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelensky" class="mw-redirect" title="Volodymyr Zelensky">Volodymyr Zelensky</a>'s forces. This was the second time in one month the Czech government had aired the matter. The French had previously vetoed the idea to obtain the ammunition from foreign sources.<sup id="cite_ref-luxt1_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-luxt1-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Dutch government of <a href="/wiki/Mark_Rutte" title="Mark Rutte">Mark Rutte</a> announced, through him on that day in Paris, that it would provide €100 million for this purpose, and De Croo announced that his government would provide €200 million. Fiala managed to attract 15 nations to his cause. The prime minister of <a href="/wiki/Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Costa" class="mw-redirect" title="Antonio Costa">Antonio Costa</a>, said that the group defence ministers had been tasked with a 7 March deadline to formulate and execute the plan.<sup id="cite_ref-rut1_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rut1-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vrt1_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vrt1-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bt1_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bt1-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the release of the <a href="/wiki/2024_Belgian_federal_election" title="2024 Belgian federal election">2024 Belgian federal election</a> results, De Croo and his party suffered a major electoral defeat. De Croo, following protocol, announced his resignation as prime minister effective on 10 June. After this, he remained as <a href="/wiki/Caretaker_government" title="Caretaker government">caretaker</a> prime minister until the formation of a new federal government.<sup id="cite_ref-bt12_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bt12-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2024, during their welcome addresses for <a href="/wiki/Pope_Francis" title="Pope Francis">Pope Francis</a> on his visit to the country, De Croo, along with <a href="/wiki/Philippe_of_Belgium" title="Philippe of Belgium">King Philippe</a>, publicly criticised the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> over sexual abuses committed by clergy in Belgium.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On his return flight to Rome, Francis said "'abortion is murder'" and that "'“science says that just one month from conception, all the organs are present'". He compared the abortion doctors to hitmen. Contemporaneously, Belgium has considered whether to expand access to abortion from the first 12 weeks to 18 weeks. De Croo said he would summon the Belgian apostolic nuncio, <a href="/wiki/Franco_Coppola" title="Franco Coppola">Franco Coppola</a>, so as to protest the pope's remarks as an “unacceptable” interference in his country’s domestic affairs.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 3 February 2025, De Croo was succeeeded as prime minister by Bart De Wever, leader of the N-VA and mayor of Antwerp. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_views_and_ideology">Political views and ideology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Political views and ideology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Like the majority of party leaders in Belgium, De Croo is in favour of greater limits on the political power of the Belgian monarch. He is of the opinion that the monarch's power should be ceremonial, similar to that of other Western European monarchs.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>De Croo is married to Annik Penders and they have two children.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is a keen <a href="/wiki/Equestrianism" title="Equestrianism">equestrian</a> and takes part in a formal event each year together with his father; in 2010 he broke a foot and an elbow when he fell from his horse.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is fluent in Dutch and English, as well as French, the <a href="/wiki/Native_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Native language">native language</a> of his mother.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_activities">Other activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Other activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_Union_organizations">European Union organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: European Union organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/European_Investment_Bank" title="European Investment Bank">European Investment Bank</a> (EIB), ex-officio member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Stability_Mechanism" title="European Stability Mechanism">European Stability Mechanism</a>, member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_organizations">International organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: International organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/African_Development_Bank" title="African Development Bank">African Development Bank</a> (AfDB), ex-officio member of the Board of Governors<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asian_Development_Bank" title="Asian Development Bank">Asian Development Bank</a> (ADB), ex-officio member of the Board of Governors<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Bank_for_Reconstruction_and_Development" title="European Bank for Reconstruction and Development">European Bank for Reconstruction and Development</a> (EBRD), ex-officio member of the Board of Governors (since 2018)<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-profit_organisations">Non-profit organisations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Non-profit organisations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/World_Economic_Forum" title="World Economic Forum">World Economic Forum</a> (WEF), member of the Europe Policy Group (since 2017)<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Orange-Nassau" title="Order of Orange-Nassau">Order of Orange-Nassau</a> (2023)<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/23px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/35px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/46px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="307" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Merit_of_the_Grand_Duchy_of_Luxembourg" title="Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg">Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg</a> (2024)<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png/50px-Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png/75px-Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png/100px-Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise_1st_2nd_and_3rd_Class_of_Ukraine.png 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="550" /></a></span> <span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/23px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/35px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Flag_of_Ukraine.svg/45px-Flag_of_Ukraine.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>: First Class of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Prince_Yaroslav_the_Wise" title="Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise">Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise</a> (26 August 2024)<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_De_Croo&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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rowspan="2">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Van_Quickenborne" title="Vincent Van Quickenborne">Vincent Van Quickenborne</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium </b><br />2012–2020 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Van_Quickenborne" title="Vincent Van Quickenborne">Vincent Van Quickenborne</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Minister of Pensions </b><br />2012–2014 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Bacquelaine" title="Daniel Bacquelaine">Daniel Bacquelaine</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jean-Pascal_Labille&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jean-Pascal Labille (page does not exist)">Jean-Pascal Labille</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Development_Cooperation_(Belgium)" title="Minister of Development Cooperation (Belgium)">Minister of Development Cooperation</a> </b><br />2014-2020 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Meryame_Kitir" title="Meryame Kitir">Meryame Kitir</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Johan_Van_Overtveldt" title="Johan Van Overtveldt">Johan Van Overtveldt</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Finance_(Belgium)" title="Minister of Finance (Belgium)">Minister of Finance</a> </b><br />2018–2020 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Vincent_Van_Peteghem" title="Vincent Van Peteghem">Vincent Van Peteghem</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Sophie_Wilm%C3%A8s" title="Sophie Wilmès">Sophie Wilmès</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Belgium" title="Prime Minister of Belgium">Prime Minister of Belgium</a> </b><br />2020–2025 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Bart_De_Wever" title="Bart De Wever">Bart De Wever</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #DAA520;">Academic offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Marcelo_Rebelo_de_Sousa" title="Marcelo Rebelo de 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