Jean-Luc Dehaene

Jean-Luc Dehaene

Listen to Jean-Luc Joseph Marie Dehaene ^{? / i} (born August 7, 1940 in Montpellier , France , † May 15, 2014 in Quimper , France) was a Belgian Christian-social politician ( CD&V ), prime minister , lawyer and economist . From 2004 he was a member of the European Parliament , before that he was Belgian Prime Minister from 1992 to 1999.

Life

Dehaene was 1981 Minister of Social Affairs and Institutional Reform in the fifth Cabinet of Wilfried Martens appointed. In 1988 he changed to the post of Minister of Transport as the successor to Herman De Croo . After Martens' resignation, he moved as Prime Minister on March 7, 1992 to the head of the conservative Belgian government, which was confirmed in the parliamentary elections in 1995. After the great judicial and police scandal in connection with the Dutroux affair in 1996, several government ministers Dehaene were forced to resign, while the government itself lost more and more prestige, voted out until 1999 by a Liberal government under Guy Verhofstadt replaced has been.

Jean-Luc Dehaene was Vice-President of the European Convention that drafted the European Constitution . Since the 2004 European elections he has been a member of the European Parliament , where he has been Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Budgets since the 2009 European elections .

Web links

Commons : Jean-Luc Dehaene  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Jean-Luc Dehaene  - Quotes (Dutch)

• Entry on Jean-Luc Dehaene in the Members' database of the European Parliament
• Jean-Luc Dehaene in nndb (English)
• http://www.ars-moriendi.be/dehaene.htm

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernard A. Cook: Europe Since 1945: An Encyclopedia . Routledge, London 2013. ISBN 978-0-815-31336-6 , p. 285.