Alexander De Croo is a Belgian politician and businessman who has served as the prime minister of Belgium since October 2020.
De Croo with U.S. President Joe Biden and King Philippe, 15 June 2021
De Croo with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez in Jerusalem, Israel, 23 November 2023
De Croo with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi and French President Emmanuel Macron in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2 December 2023
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.
Michel with UK Prime Minister David Cameron in 2016
Michel with Russian president Vladimir Putin in 2018
Michel meeting in Warsaw with the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki, 10 November 2021