34-599: The Di Rupo Government was the federal cabinet of Belgium sworn in on 6 December 2011, after a record-breaking 541 days of negotiations following the June 2010 elections . The government included social democrats ( sp.a / PS ), Christian democrats ( CD&V / cdH ) and liberals ( Open Vld / MR ), respectively of the Dutch and French language groups. The government notably excluded the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA),
68-557: A deputy prime minister of Belgium. During his tenure as deputy prime minister he served as the Minister of Pensions from 2012 to 2014, as Minister of Development Cooperation from 2014 to 2020, and as Minister of Finance from 2018 to 2020. On 1 October 2020, over a year after the 2019 federal elections , the De Croo Government was formed to replace Wilmès' minority government , with De Croo as prime minister. After
102-696: A disagreement within the government over the UN Global Compact for Migration , the N-VA left the governing coalition, causing the administration to become a minority government on 9 December 2018, known as Michel II . De Croo became Minister of Finance, replacing Johan Van Overtveldt . In December 2018, De Croo took the stage during the Global Citizen Festival Mandela 100 concert in Johannesburg , South Africa . It
136-533: A result, Van Quickenborne resigned on 17 October 2012 and was replaced as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Pensions by Alexander De Croo (Open VLD), who took the oath of office on 22 October 2012. Magnette remained in his position as Minister of Public Enterprises, Scientific Policy and Development Cooperation until 17 January 2013, when he formally resigned and his successor Jean-Pascal Labille (PS) became Minister of Public Enterprises and Development Cooperation. Secretary of state Philippe Courard (PS) took over
170-521: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Alexander De Croo Alexander De Croo ( Dutch: [aːlɛkˈsɑndər də ˈkroː] ; born 3 November 1975) is a Belgian politician and businessman who is the prime minister of Belgium . He assumed office in October 2020 and is currently acting in a demissionary capacity. De Croo was born in Vilvoorde and studied business engineering at
204-530: The 2024 Belgian federal election , De Croo and his party suffered a major electoral defeat. De Croo announced his resignation on 9 June 2024. De Croo will remain as caretaker prime minister until a new coalition is formed. Alexander De Croo was born on 3 November 1975 in Vilvoorde in Flemish Brabant , Belgium, and was one of two children of the politician and Minister of State Herman De Croo and his wife Françoise Desguin. In 1993, he attended
238-578: The New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) became the biggest party while the Socialist Party (PS) prevailed in Wallonia. King Albert II appointed various politicians as mediators, including Bart De Wever , André Flahaut , Danny Pieters , Johan Vande Lanotte , Didier Reynders and Wouter Beke . Ultimately, Elio Di Rupo made a proposition which was refused by The New Flemish Alliance, but accepted by all other parties and as such they continued without
272-663: The Vrije Universiteit Brussel before attaining an MBA at Northwestern University in the United States. He worked for Boston Consulting Group before starting his own company, Darts-ip, in 2006. De Croo became involved with the Belgian political party Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (Open VLD), of which he was chairman from 2009 to 2012. From 2012 to 2020, De Croo served in the governments of Elio Di Rupo , Charles Michel , and Sophie Wilmès as
306-682: The Vrije Universiteit Brussel where he graduated in 1998 in Business Engineering. He attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois , in 2002, and completed an MBA at the Kellogg School of Management in 2004. Prior to his political career, De Croo became a project leader at Boston Consulting Group in 1999. In 2006 he founded a new company called Darts-ip that specialized in providing services to intellectual property professionals. In 2009, De Croo participated for
340-688: The 2014 elections on 22 July 2014 Joelle Milquet (CDh) resigned to become minister of Lower education and Culture in the Government of the French Community . She was replaced as Deputy-Prime Minister and Minister of the interior by Melchior Wathelet, Jr. , who in turn was succeeded as state secretary of Environment, Energy, Mobility and Institutional Reforms by Catherine Fonck (CDh). On 25 July 2014 Annemie Turtelboom (Open VLD) resigned as Minister of Justice to become Viceminister-president and Flemish minister of Finances, Budget and Energy. She
374-599: The Flemish nationalist party which achieved a plurality and became the largest party. Its absence, together with the unwillingness of Open Vld to enter into an eight-party coalition that included the green parties, caused the government coalition to lack a majority in the Dutch language group. It was the first time that the Belgian prime minister had been openly gay, as Di Rupo became the world's first male openly gay head of government (and second of any gender, after Iceland 's Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir ). Elio Di Rupo also became
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#1732764656590408-734: The Israeli bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip "disproportionate", but said that "Belgium will not take sides" in the Israel–Hamas war . The Israeli government accused him of "supporting terrorism". On 26 February 2024 DeCroo travelled to Paris, where Emmanuel Macron was holding an emergency summit over the situation in Ukraine , as they had just suffered the loss of Avdiivka . Czech PM Petr Fiala proposed to purchase 500,000 rounds of artillery ammunition for Volodymyr Zelensky 's forces. This
442-587: The King to form a government. On 30 September 2020, it was announced that De Croo would take over the position of prime minister, succeeding Wilmès. The formation of the Belgian government (Vivaldi) took a considerable amount of time. The book De doodgravers van België by Wouter Verschelden [ nl ] states that the main reason for the prolonged negotiations was a scandal about communication between De Croo and an Italian pornographic film actress. In August 2021, Corriere della Sera quoted statements by
476-474: The N-VA. On 13 October 2011, it was decided that the green parties would not be part of the government but would support it in matters of confidence to achieve the two-thirds majority needed for state reform . On 26 November 2011, the six remaining parties agreed on the national budget and agreed to the coalition on 3 December. After more than 19 hours of negotiation, the parties involved came to an agreement on
510-824: The SP.a faction in the Flemish Parliament. His competences were taken over by Minister Johan Vande Lanotte (SP.a). Cabinet of Belgium The Council of Ministers ( Dutch : Ministerraad ; French : Conseil des ministres ; German : Ministerrat ) is the supreme executive organ of the Federal Government of the Kingdom of Belgium . It is a cabinet composed of the Prime Minister , who leads it, and up to fourteen senior ministers. Federal secretaries of state (junior ministers) are members of
544-468: The allocation of ministries on 5 December 2011. The government was sworn in the next day. With 13 ministers and 6 secretaries of state, this government is one of the smallest by the number of ministers, not taking into account the secretaries of state. Following the 2012 Belgian provincial and municipal elections , ministers Paul Magnette (PS) and Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open VLD) were both elected as mayor, of Charleroi and Kortrijk respectively. As
578-573: The competence of Scientific Policy from Magnette. On 5 March 2013 Steven Vanackere (CD&V) resigned as Deputy-Prime Minister and Minister of Finance after he was accused of lying to parliament about his knowledge regarding the financial agreements between the Algemeen Christelijk Werknemersverbond and Belfius . He was succeeded as Deputy Prime minister by Minister of Defense Pieter De Crem (CD&V) and as Minister of Finance by Koen Geens (CD&V). After
612-548: The country, De Croo, along with King Philippe , publicly criticised the Catholic Church over sexual abuses committed by clergy in Belgium. 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 was considered whether to expand access to abortion from
646-496: The demands of NATO 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. On 26 November 2022, De Croo and foreign minister Hadja Lahbib visited Ukraine, meeting Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and pledging continued Belgian support to Ukraine. In November 2023, De Croo called
680-643: The federal level to the regions. Because a state reform requires a two-thirds majority, the green parties ( Groen / Ecolo ) participated in these negotiations but were not part of the government coalition. Following issues regarding the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde electoral district, the Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats quit the Leterme II Government , leading to early elections on 13 June 2010. In Flanders,
714-480: The first 12 weeks to 18 weeks. De Croo said he would summon the Belgian apostolic nuncio, Franco Coppola . so as to protest the pope's remarks as an “unacceptable” interference in his country’s domestic affairs. 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. De Croo
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#1732764656590748-609: The first country to suspend official development assistance to Burundi after the beginning of violent unrest in the African country from 2015. In 2017, De Croo pledged €25 million ($ 26.81 million) through 2025 to eradicate African sleeping sickness . He also was one of the founders of the She Decides movement, a reaction against the re-installation of the Mexico City Policy by President Donald Trump . After
782-416: The first native French-speaking prime minister since 1979 and the first prime minister from Wallonia since 1974 and first socialist prime minister since 1974. The negotiations aimed to put an end to the 2007–2011 Belgian political crisis and included a sixth state reform , including the partition of the electoral and judicial arrondissement of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde and the transfer of new powers from
816-464: The first time in politics, standing in the 2009 European elections . He received more than 47,000 votes. On 26 October, De Croo became a candidate for the presidency of his political party, Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (Open VLD), to succeed the transitional party president, Guy Verhofstadt . He chose Vincent Van Quickenborne and Patricia Ceysens as his running mates to compete against Marino Keulen and Gwendolyn Rutten . On 12 December, he
850-550: The government adopted a law to make the labour market more flexible: employees will have the possibility, provided that their company agrees, of switching to a four-day week. In return, their working days will 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 will no longer be considered as night work and will not entitle employees to any compensation. The government wants to increase military spending to 2 per cent of GDP in order to comply with
884-622: The government, but not part of the Council. The King of the Belgians historically presided over the Council, but this has not happened since 1957. The Council of Ministers formally became a permanent policy structure with the constitutional revision of 1970. The De Croo Government is the incumbent Federal Government of Belgium, led by Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 1 October 2020. This article about government in Belgium
918-502: The group defense ministers had been tasked with a 7 March deadline to formulate and execute the plan. Following the release of the 2024 Belgian federal election results, De Croo and his party suffered a major electoral defeat. De Croo announced his resignation as prime minister effective on 10 June. After this, he will remain as caretaker prime minister until a new federal government is formed. In September 2024, during their welcome addresses for Pope Francis on his visit to
952-498: 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. De Croo's government has a higher proportion of women ministers than any previous Belgian government: half of the ministers are women. In June 2021, he visited the site of the Antwerp building collapse with King Philippe of Belgium and spoke with emergency workers. In February 2022,
986-768: The party left the government and then Prime Minister Yves Leterme announced the government's resignation. This was accepted by King Albert II on 26 April 2010. During the elections for the Senate in 2010 , De Croo obtained more than 301,000 votes, the third most in the Dutch-speaking constituency and served as a senator until 22 October 2012. De Croo succeeded Van Quickenborne in the Di Rupo Government as deputy prime minister and Minister of Pensions on 22 October 2012 after Van Quickenborne resigned to become mayor of Kortrijk . In December Gwendolyn Rutten
1020-506: Was elected as the new chairwoman of Open VLD. After the 2014 Belgian federal election and its Federal Government formation , it was decided that he would remain deputy prime minister in the newly formed Michel I Government . De Croo also became Minister of Development Cooperation, Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal Services while Daniel Bacquelaine took over from him as Minister of Pensions. This government took office on 11 October 2014. During De Croo's time in office, Belgium became
1054-508: Was elected president in the second round with 11,676 votes; Marino Keulen received 9,614 votes. His election was considered remarkable as he had almost no previous experience as a politician. 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 Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde voting issue. After Open VLD's deadline passed
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1088-631: Was succeeded as minister of Justice by Maggie De Block (Open VLD). On 12 September 2014 Philippe Courard (PS) resigned as Secretary of State for Social Affairs, Families, Disabled Persons and Scientific Policy in order to become leader of the PS faction in the Walloon Parliament. His competences were taken over by Minister Laurette Onkelinx (PS). On 16 September 2014 John Crombez (SP.a) resigned as Secretary of State for Combating Social and Fiscal Fraud, effective 22 September, to become leader of
1122-547: Was the final event of the international campaign #SheIsEqual for women's rights which attracted €780 million in commitments. Under the caretaker administration of Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès , he oversaw a financial stimulus package to tackle the COVID-19 crisis and a deal to save Brussels Airlines in 2020. He was elected joint deputy chairman of Open VLD, together with Egbert Lachaert . On 23 September 2020, Alexander De Croo and Paul Magnette ( PS ) were appointed by
1156-586: Was the second time in one month the Czech government had aired the matter. The French had previously vetoed the idea to purchase the ammunition from foreign sources. The Dutch government of Mark Rutte announced, through him on that day in Paris, that it would provide €100 million for this purpose, and DeCroo announced that his government would provide €200 million. Fiala managed to attract 15 nations to his cause. The prime minister of Portugal , Antonio Costa , said that
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