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Politico (2 January 2024)

Barbara Moens-Gregorio Sorgi

Prime Minister Alexander De Croo — whose country has taken over Europe’s rotating presidency — outlines a controversial proposal in an interview with POLITICO.

The European Union needs more of its own money, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told POLITICO just as Brussels is hitting the limits of what it can ask national governments to contribute to finance their priorities.

Amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the ebbing of a global pandemic, and Israel's ongoing war in Gaza, European citizens are looking ever more toward the EU for strategic solutions to global issues, said De Croo, whose country took the helm of the Council of the EU on January 1.

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