Gerard Deprez

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Gérard Deprez (born August 13, 1943 in Noville ) is a Belgian politician ( MR , formerly PSC ). He was from 1984 to 2009 and has been a member of the European Parliament again since 2014 .

Gérard Deprez (2015)

Life

Deprez studied philosophy and philology at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) from 1961 to 1963 and then sociology at the same university. In 1967 he finished his sociology studies with a licentiate and worked as a research assistant for sociology at UCL until his doctorate in 1974.

In 1974 he took over the post of advisor in the cabinet of the Minister for French Culture and then served from 1975 to 1978 as political advisor to the chairman of the Parti Social Chrétien (PSC) (since 2002 Center Démocrate Humaniste ). From 1975 to 1978 he worked as the Deputy Prime Minister's Cabinet chief. In the same year he was elected General Secretary of the PSC-CVP. He held this office until 1979. From 1981 to 1996 he was chairman of the PSC and a member of the board of the EPP .

In 1998 he was expelled from the party after he had called in an interview in the newspaper Le Soir to merge the PSC with the Parti réformateur libéral and the Front démocratique des francophones . Shortly afterwards he founded the Mouvement des Citoyens pour le Changement (MCC) movement, which later became part of the Mouvement Réformateur party, of which he has been deputy chairman since 1998.

Deprez was elected to the European Parliament in 1984. He was a member of the Group of the European People's Party from 1984 to 2004 and moved to the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in 2004 , of which he has been a member since 2014. He was chairman of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs , member of the Conference of Committee Chairs , and vice-chairman of the delegation for relations with Mercosur. He was also a member of the Budget Committee and the delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly. After the European elections in 2009 , Deprez left the European Parliament. In the 2014 European elections he was re-elected to the European Parliament.

Deprez is married and has three children.

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SURNAME Deprez, Gérard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian politician, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Noville