{UAH} Belgian PM Charles Michel resigns after no-confidence motion

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Belgian PM Charles Michel resigns after no-confidence motion

Biggest party in his coalition government quit last week in row over UN migration pact

Reuters in Brussels

Tue 18 Dec 2018 19.43 GMT

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 Charles Michel at an EU leaders summit in Brussels last week. Photograph: Piroschka van de Wouw/Reuters

Belgium's prime minister, Charles Michel, has announced his resignation after socialists and greens tabled a motion of no confidence in his minority government.

Michel relaunched his government a week ago as a minority administration after the Flemish N-VA, the biggest party in his coalition, quit in a dispute over signing the UN migration pact.

In an address to parliament on Tuesday, he said he would offer his resignation to the king.

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