Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers

Jean -Charles Snoy et d' Oppuers ( born July 2, 1907 in Bois- Seigneur- Isaac, † May 17, 1991 ) was a Belgian politician.

Life

The son of the Baron Thierry Snoy et d' Oppuers (1862-1930) studied law, economics and Thomistic philosophy at the Catholic University of Louvain and at Harvard. In 1932 he received his doctorate with an economics work for U.S. Customs policy. From 1939 to 1959 he was Secretary General of the Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs ( with interruption of several years during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944 ). In this role he was after the Second World War to the European leaders that negotiated the Treaties of Rome in 1957 and signed. 1958/59 he was Permanent Representative of Belgium to the European Economic Community ( EEC). Between 1960 and 1968 Snoy worked for the Banque Brussels Lambert. From 1968 to 1971, he was elected as a deputy of the Catholic Parti social chrétien (PSC ) in the Belgian House of Representatives. From June 1968 to November 1971 he was Belgian Minister of Finance. From 1970 to 1976 he served as mayor of his home town Ophain -Bois -Seigneur - Isaac.

Jean -Charles Snoy married 1935 Countess Nathalie d' Alcantara ( 1914-2007 ), with whom he had seven children.

Services

Jean -Charles Snoy belonged to the generation of European politicians that initiated in the 1950s in the wake of the Second World War, the process of European integration. In recognition of this achievement he received in addition to numerous other honors, in 1983 the Robert Schuman Prize ( Alfred Toepfer Foundation )

Honors

Works

• Rebatir l'Europe, Mémoires. Paris: Duculot, 1989, ISBN 2-8011-0861-8.