“We are going to experience five difficult winters” repeated the Prime Minister, this Tuesday, October 18, when launching the federal hydrogen strategy. Alexander De Croo (Open Vld) had already issued such a warning regarding the energy crisis at the start of the school year, prompting strong reactions. “My words surprised many people at the time,” admitted the Flemish liberal this morning in comments relayed by HLN. “I have been questioned extensively on the subject. But more than a month and a half later, I find that there is nothing to suggest that I was wrong.”
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This is why Mr. De Croo felt that it was necessary to make “the right strategic choices”, to move forward “by leaps and bounds therefollowing”. For the Prime Minister, hydrogen is one of these good practices which will help Belgium to recover in the future. “This will allow us to avoid a deindustrialization of our country,” he argued to the Belga agency. “(…) Without the development of this technology, our industry will disappear and we will lose the fight once morest global warming.”
Asked by our colleagues from LN24 regarding the energy crisis last week, the Flemish liberal had not hidden his concern for the months and years to come. Despite the announcement of new support measures for the population taken by the government, the Prime Minister had admitted “not having the solutions to all the problems”. “Belgium is facing a global problem and we are doing the maximum. The worst you can do is to promise things that are unrealizable.”
