Danny Pieters
Danny Pieters ( born October 13, 1956 in Uccle / Ukkel ) is a Belgian university professor of social justice and politicians of the Nieuw- Vlaamse Alliantie (N -VA). Pieters was between 2010 and 2011 President of the Senate. He is considered an expert for the Belgian social security system and has long taught this subject at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL ), the vice-rector, he has been 2013. His political career began in 1999 in the Chamber of Deputies for the former Volksunie (VU).
Life
The multilingual claims to Danny Pieters doctorate in 1985 for a Doctor of Law and taught then the social security law at the law faculties of the Dutch University of Tilburg (1986 to 1992) and the KUL (since 1988) and the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel ( KUB ) (1992 to 1999). It is also true about Belgium also Pieters as a recognized expert, which he, for example, access to the General Secretariat of the European Institute of Social Security (since 1994) or to the Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law, Munich gave (1996 to 1999). Pieters was also a member of the Supervisory Board of the Belgian Crossroads Bank for Social Security ( ZDSS ) and a member of the Committee on the protection of private life, which deals mainly with the Data Protection (1991 to 1999) due to its large expertise.
His entry into federal politics he experienced in 1999 when he (resolved today, at that time under the name of VU & ID started ) for the Flemish- national Volksunie (VU) in the Chamber of Deputies was elected. In fact Pieters is known for its Flemish setting and encourages the creation of a separate social security for Flanders. In 2001 he was one of the four members of the VU ( Ndl de Bende van Four ) that the by the Government Verhofstadt I under Guy Verhofstadt (VLD ) at negotiated " Lambermont Agreement" for the fifth Belgian state reform did not vote, because they lack the reform does not go far enough, though the chairman of the Volksunie, Fons Borginon, the government had promised his support. The result was that the Volksunie fell into an internal dispute and eventually broke up into several smaller factions. The right wing of Volksunie, which also belonged Pieters, then founded the Nieuw- Vlaamse Alliantie (N -VA). In the federal elections in 2003, however, the N -VA could submit only one deputies, so Pieters had to leave the policy again.
Chaired by Bart De Wever, the N -VA recovered and eventually became involved after the regional elections of 2009, the Flemish government Kris Peeters (CD & V). Danny Pieters received in 2010 as a representative of the N -VA to chair the Board of the Flemish Labour Office ( Vlaamse service voor Arbeidsbemiddeling s Beroepsopleiding - VDAB ). In the same year he was elected after winning the N -VA in the federal elections 2010 in the Senate.
Between July 2010 and October 2011 was Danny Pieters President of the Senate and the first Flemish nationalist who has this post bekeleidet. Pieters was appointed in advance of the negotiations for a new federal government to the President, as part of an agreement between his party and the Francophone Socialists hp. The negotiations failed, however, and as was promised in the autumn of 2011, a new government constellation without the N - VA, Pieters was replaced as president by the CD & V Senator Sabine de Bethune.
In July 2013 Pieters has left his seat in the Senate to return to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he took over the post of vice-rector.