European Union must enlarge or face 'new Iron Curtain,' President Michel warns
The European Union must get bigger or risk facing a "new Iron Curtain" along its eastern flank, European Council President Charles..
Charles Michel is a Belgian politician serving as the president of the European Council since 2019. He previously served as the prime minister of Belgium between 2014 and 2019. Michel became the minister of development cooperation in 2007 at age thirty-one, and remained in this position until elected the leader of the Francophone liberal Reformist Movement (MR) in February 2011. He led MR to the 2014 federal election, where they emerged as the third-largest party in the Chamber of Representatives. After coalition negotiations, Michel was confirmed as Prime Minister of a MR-N-VA-OVLD-CD&V government. He was sworn in on 11 October 2014, becoming the youngest Belgian prime minister since Jean-Baptiste Nothomb in 1841.
The European Union must get bigger or risk facing a "new Iron Curtain" along its eastern flank, European Council President Charles..
Euronews Correspondent Shona Murray sits down with European Council President, Charles Michel, to discuss support for war-ravaged..