Erik Derycke

Erik AN Derycke (born October 28, 1949 in Waregem , West Flanders Province ) is a Belgian lawyer and politician of the Belgian Socialist Partij (BSP) and most recently the Socialist Partij (SP), who was among other things Vice Prime Minister briefly in 1995 and between 1995 and 1999 Was Foreign Minister in the first and second governments of Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene . Since 2001 he has been a judge at the Court of Arbitration, which became the Belgian Constitutional Court in 2007 .

Life

Lawyer, Member of Parliament and State Secretary

After attending school, Derycke completed a law degree at the University of Ghent and graduated in 1972 with a law degree . He then took up a position as a lawyer .

He began his political career in 1974 when he was elected as a candidate for the Belgian Socialist Partij (BSP) as a member of the Provincial Council of the Province of Antwerp , which he remained until 1984. At the same time he was a member of the advisory board of the public welfare center OCMW (Openbaar Centrum voor Maatschappelijk Welzijn) from Waregem between 1977 and 1989 .

On January 31, 1984 Derycke was elected as a candidate for the Socialist Party (SP) for the first time as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Belgium and was a member of this for seventeen years until 2001. First he represented the arrondissement of Kortrijk and then, since May 21, 1995, the constituency of Kortrijk-Roeselare-Tielt . During this time, between 1988 and 1989, he was a member of both the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU). He was also a member of the Waregem municipal council from 1989 to 2001.

On January 18, 1990, Prime Minister Wilfried Martens appointed him State Secretary for Science Policy in the eighth Martens cabinet .

Minister, Vice Prime Minister and Judge at the Constitutional Court

Erik Derycke signed the Amsterdam Treaty on October 2, 1997

In the ninth Martens government , which was then formed on September 29, 1991 , he served as Minister for Development Cooperation and Minister Associate with the Minister for Science Policy Wivina Demeester until March 7, 1992 .

After Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene formed his first cabinet on March 7, 1992, Derycke became State Secretary for Development Cooperation and held this position until this office was dissolved on March 22, 1995.

On March 22, 1995 he succeeded Frank Vandenbroucke as Foreign Minister in the first Dehaene cabinet and held this ministerial office in the second Dehaene cabinet until July 12, 1999. At the same time, he replaced Vandenbroucke as Vice Prime Minister, but only held this office until July 12, 1999 at the end of Dehaene's first term on June 23, 1995. As representative of Belgium, he signed the Amsterdam Treaty on October 2, 1997 amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaties establishing the European Communities, i.e. the EC Treaty , the EURATOM Treaty and the ECSC, which was still in force at the time. Contract , as well as some related legal acts.

After leaving the government, he was again a member of the Parliamentary Assemblies of the Council of Europe and the WEU between 1999 and 2001, as well as a member of the Interparliamentary Conference of the Interparliamentary Union (IPU).

After Derycke left the Chamber of Deputies in 2001, he became a judge at the Court of Arbitration, which in 2007 became the Belgian Constitutional Court. In addition, since 2004 he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of UZ Brussel , the university clinic of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel .

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Belgian Chamber of Deputies
• Entry at rulers.org