Brussels (Brussels Morning) – Prime Minister of Belgium, Alexander De Croo said the European Investment bank should finance nuclear projects. Â
Belgium Prime Minister De Croo talked at a nuclear conference on Thursday and acknowledged that the European Investment bank must finance new nuclear initiatives.Â
De Croo Statement at Nuclear Conference
“There is no lack of private financing. Quite the contrary, what lacks is the right circumstances to get private financing going and a multilateral bank should be a lever to multiply investment,” Alexander De Croo said at the conference in Brussels.Â
Rafael Grossi Remarks
At the same nuclear conference, International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi discussed that now every country agrees nuclear energy is part of a climate solution, since the last international conference on climate, COP 28.
Furthermore, he added “Many decisions of financial institutions depend on governments wanting something or not opposing it”. Â