Jean-Luc Dehaene

Listen to Jean Luc Dehaene Joseph Marie? / I ( born August 7, 1940 in Montpellier) is a Belgian Christian Socialist politician (CD & V), Prime Minister, lawyer and economist. Since 2004 he is a member of the European Parliament, before he was also Prime Minister of Belgium from 1992 to 1999

Dehaene was appointed in 1988 as Minister of Transport and institutional reforms in the cabinet of Wilfried Martens. After his resignation he joined in 1992 as Prime Minister at the head of the conservative Belgian Government, which was confirmed in the parliamentary elections of 1995. After the great judicial and police scandal related to the Dutroux affair in 1996, several government ministers Dehaene were forced to resign, while the government itself increasingly lost prestige until they voted out in 1999 and replaced by a Liberal government under Guy Verhofstadt been.

Jean -Luc Dehaene was Vice - President of the European Convention, which drafted the European Constitution. Since the 2004 European parliamentary elections he is a member of the European Parliament, where he is vice chairman of the Budget Committee for the 2009 European election.

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