Gaston Eyskens

? Gaston François Marie Eyskens listen / i ( born April 1, 1905 in Lier, † January 3, 1988 in Leuven ) was a Belgian statesman and several times Prime Minister of the country.

Eyskens was an economic expert, since 1931 professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and since 1939 for the Belgian Christian socialists in Parliament. He was several times Minister of Finance (1945, 1947-1949 and 1965-1966 ) and from 1947 to 1949 director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( IBRD). In the years 1949-1950, 1958-1961 and 1968-1973 he was the prime minister of Belgium, where he is particularly concerned with the conflicts between the Flemings and the Walloons and the dispute over the former King Leopold III. and had to deal Congo question. He was instrumental in the constitutional reform of 1970, which initiated a regionalization of Belgium.

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