INTERVIEW. Flemish minister Hilde Crevits (CD&V) is back after 6 weeks of forced rest: “I was so afraid of being seen as a profiteer”

Flemish Minister of Welfare Hilde Crevits (CD&V) has been involved in top politics for 15 years, but in the middle of the Flemish budget talks the barrel was finished. “Jambon thought I was having a stroke. My mouth was crooked and I could barely speak intelligibly.” The diagnosis: complete mental and physical exhaustion. “A burnout? I don’t dare put a label on it, but I’ve rubbed it, I think.”

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