The Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Belgium Sophia Wilmes resigned due to the inability to fulfill official duties due to her husband’s illness, TASS reports.
“my husband’s illness will be a severe struggle that I want to wage next to him and our children. My current functions in the government would not allow me to do this,” the agency quoted Wilmes.
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It is noted that from April 21, the minister went into an unlimited unpaid vacation to care for her husband, who has brain cancer.