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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The Belgian government has agreed on a new term for the country’s central bank governor and European Central Bank policymaker Pierre Wunsch, a government spokesperson said on Wednesday. The new mandate will run until Dec. 31, 2029, the spokesperson added. The news was earlier reported by national news agency Belga. The National Bank of Belgium had asked Wunsch, in office since early 2019, to stay on in a temporary capacity after the end of his term in 2023, as political wrangling among Belgium’s top parties prevented an official extension. Wunsch was among the first ECB pol…

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