Gaston François Marie,Viscount Eyskens was a Christian democratic politician and prime minister of Belgium. He was also an economist and member of the Belgian Christian Social Party (CVP-PSC).
Christian Democratic and Flemish is a Flemish Christian-democratic political party in Belgium. The party has historical ties to both trade unionism (ACV) and trade associations (UNIZO) and the Farmer's League. Until 2001,the party was named the Christian People's Party.
The Liberal Reformist Party was a liberal political party active in Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium. The PRL grew out of the Francophone part of the unitary liberal Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV-PLP) in 1971 and merged into the Reformist Movement (RM) in 2002.
Jean Luc Joseph Marie "Jean-Luc" Dehaene was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999. During his political career,he was nicknamed "The Plumber" and "The Minesweeper" for his ability to negotiate political deadlocks. A member of the Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V) party and its antecedents,Dehaene gained his first ministerial appointment in 1981. Dehaene's first government (1992–1995) included both Christian and Social Democrats and presided over the creation of a new constitution,effectively transforming Belgium into a federal state. His second government (1995–1999) coincided with a number of crises in Belgium including the Dutroux scandal. The Dioxin Affair,occurring shortly before the 1999 election,led to a swing against the major parties and Dehaene's government fell. Following his final term as Prime Minister he was active in both Belgian and European politics. He was also on UEFA's financial fair play regulatory body and managed Dexia Bank during the financial crisis. He was the last prime minister of King Baudouin's reign.
Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens was a Belgian politician who served as prime minister of Belgium from 1979 to 1981 and from 1981 to 1992. A member of the Flemish Christian People's Party,during his premiership he oversaw the transformation of Belgium into a federal state. He was one of the founders of the European People's Party.
Leonard Clemence "Leo" Tindemans was a Belgian politician. He served as the prime minister of Belgium serving from 25 April 1974 until he resigned as minister on 20 October 1978. He was a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party.
Frank Ignace Georgette Vandenbroucke is a Belgian-Flemish academic and politician of Vooruit who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Social Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020.
Hugo Schiltz was a Belgian lawyer and politician. He was Belgian MP from 1965 to 1988 and senator from 1992 to 1995. He was also twice minister,from 1981 to 1985 in the first Flemish Government and between 1988 and 1991 in the Belgian federal government Martens VIII. He was further president of the Flemish political party Volksunie between 1975 and 1979.
Gaston C. S. A. Geens was a Belgian politician and minister-president of Flanders.
Jean Gol was a Belgian politician for the liberal Walloon party Parti Réformateur Libéral (PRL). He was a minister,on several occasions,in the Belgian government,including service as Deputy Prime Minister.
Frans Van Cauwelaert,was a Belgian Roman Catholic politician and lawyer.
State reform,in the context of Belgium,is the ongoing process of seeking and finding constitutional and legal solutions to the problems and tensions in the different segments of the Belgian population,mostly between the Dutch-speakers of Flanders and the French-speakers of Wallonia. In general,Belgium has evolved from a unitary state to a federal state with communities,regions,and language areas.
Steven Vanackere,is a Belgian politician from Flanders and member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V). He held the portfolios of Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Institutional Reform in the Leterme II government. He is the son of Leo Vanackere,who,following a political career as a Member of the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate of Belgium,became the Provincial Governor of West Flanders in 1979. His grandfather,Remi Wallays,had also been a senator and had been a former Mayor of Wevelgem.
Henri Maria Dymphna AndréLaurent "Rik" Torfs is a Belgian canon law scholar and media personality. He is a former Senator for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party in the Belgian Federal Parliament and a former Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven.
Henri "Rik" Joseph Boel was a Belgian politician and a judge.
Johan Sauwens is a Belgian politician from the province of Limburg.
Theo Kelchtermans is a Belgian politician.
The Catholic University of Leuven was one of Belgium's major universities. It split along linguistic lines after a period of civil unrest in 1967–68 commonly known as the Leuven Affair in French and Flemish Leuven,based on a contemporary slogan,in Dutch. The crisis shook Belgian politics and led to the fall of the government of Paul Vanden Boeynants. It marked an escalation of the linguistic tension in Belgium after World War II and had lasting consequences for other bilingual institutions in Belgium within higher education and politics alike. In 1970 the first of several state reforms occurred,marking the start of Belgium's transition to a federal state.
An orange–blue coalition is a type of governing coalition in Belgian politics that brings together Liberal parties and Christian democratic/humanist political parties. These coalitions are also termed Blue–Roman,corresponding to the colors of the liberal parties,and the Roman of the Roman Catholic Church for the Christian Democrats.
Rika De Backer,also known as Rika De Backer-Van Ocken,was a Belgian conservative politician. Being a member of the Christian People's Party she was the minister of culture from 1974 to 1981. She also served at the European Parliament between 1984 and 1989.
