BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian Foreign Minister and deputy premier Sophie Wilmes has resigned, the cabinet announced in a statement on Thursday.
Wilmes had temporarily stepped down in April to take care of her husband who had been diagnosed with brain cancer.
“My husband’s illness will be a difficult battle that I want to fight alongside him and alongside our children,” Wilmes said in the statement. “My current duties in government would not allow me to do so.”
(Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
