Sophie Wilmès

Sophie Wilmès

Sophie Wilmès is a Belgian politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since October 2020. She is the country’s first female foreign minister, and was over the year from October 2019 the first female prime minister in Belgian history. She has three daughters: Victoria, Charlotte, and Elizabeth Stone, from a previous relationship, and a son, Jonathan Stone.

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Summary Sophie WilmèsSophie Wilmès is a Belgian politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since October 2020. She is the country’s first female foreign minister, and was over the year from October 2019 the first female prime minister in Belgian history. She was criticized for her handling while Premier of the coronavirus pandemic by De CroO when he said on day one of his new administration: \”Our country, our economy, our companies cannot afford new generalised lockdowns.

\” Her mother is an Ashkenazi Jew who lost several relatives in the Holocaust and had worked in the office of Mieke Offeciers between 1992 and 1993. She has three daughters: Victoria, Charlotte, and Elizabeth Stone, from a previous relationship, and a son, Jonathan Stone. Her Austrian counterpart, Alexander Schallenberg, has also since May 2009, had a positive test for COVID-19.