Even if the Middle East conflict were to end today, its ripple effects risk creating the conditions for further conflicts to emerge, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Alexander De Croo has told Euronews' morning show, Europe Today.
"The first measure [that must be taken] is to stop the war or at least come to some type of normalisation of the shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz," the former Belgian Prime Minister said.