Flemish Brabant is a province of Flanders,one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Belgian provinces of Antwerp,Limburg,Liège,Walloon Brabant,Hainaut and East Flanders. Flemish Brabant also surrounds the Brussels-Capital Region. Its capital is Leuven. It has an area of 2,118 km2 (818 sq mi) which is divided into two administrative districts containing 65 municipalities. As of January 2024,Flemish Brabant had a population of over 1.19 million.
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.
Marc Maria Frans,Viscount Eyskens,known as Mark Eyskens,is a Belgian economist,professor and politician in the Christian People's Party,now called Christian Democratic and Flemish,and briefly served as the prime minister of Belgium in 1981.
Flanders is both a cultural community and an economic region within the Belgian state,and has significant autonomy.
Flemish political parties operate in the whole Flemish Community,which covers the unilingual Flemish Region and the bilingual Brussels-Capital Region. In the latter,they compete with French-speaking parties that all also operate in Wallonia. There are very few parties that operate on a national level in Belgium. Flanders generally tends to vote for right-wing,conservative parties,whereas in French-speaking Belgium the socialist party is usually the most successful one.
Marianne Leonie Petrus Thyssen is a Belgian politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish Party (CD&V) who served as European Commissioner for Employment,Social Affairs,Skills and Labour Mobility between 2014 and 2019.
Luc Van den Brande is a Flemish politician,member of the CD&V and was Minister-president of Flanders from 21 January 1992 until 13 July 1999. He took the initiative to create the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB). On 6 February 2008 he became President of the European Union's Committee of the Regions for a period of two years.
Magdalena Godelieve HildaAelvoet is a Belgian politician in Flanders. She was a provincial senator for Antwerp between 1985 and 1991 and a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives for the district of Leuven between 1991 and 1994,when she also served in the Flemish Council. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999,where she was the chair of the Greens. Aelvoet was appointed deputy prime minister and the Minister of Consumer Affairs,Public Health and the Environment in the Verhofstadt I government between 1999 and 2002 and became a Minister of State in 1995.
Herman Achille,Count Van Rompuy is a Belgian politician who served as prime minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009,and then as the first permanent president of the European Council from 2009 to 2014.
Victor Leemans was a Belgian sociologist,politician and prominent ideologist of the radical Flemish movement in the 1930s. A member of the militant organisation Verdinaso,he is seen by some as the main Flemish exponent of the historical phenomenon known as the Conservative Revolution.
Eric Karel Paul Van Rompuy is a Flemish politician.
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.
KU Leuven is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven,Belgium. Founded in 1425,it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries.
Reinhilde Veugelers is a Belgian economist and Professor of Managerial Economics,Strategy and Innovation at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven from Belgium,known for her research on science and innovation. She is also a scholar at Bruegel in Brussels and at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington D.C.
Koen Geens is a Belgian jurist and politician of the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) who served as the Minister of Justice and as Deputy Prime Minister in the governments of Prime Ministers Charles Michel and Sophie Wilmès.
Augustus Franciscus Joseph De Boodt was from 1936 to 1968,senator District Mechelen –Turnhout. He was a member of the CVP. He was Councilor Turnhout from 1936 to 1946. In 1950,he was appointed Minister of Reconstruction by Joseph Pholien.
Jan Maria Florent Wouters is a Belgian academic. He is Jean Monnet Chair,and Professor of International Law and International Organizations at KU Leuven,where he is also Director of its Centre for Global Governance Studies and Institute for International Law.
Herman Frans Anna baron Van der Wee is a Belgian economic historian. He was a full professor of social and economic history at the KU Leuven from 1969 to 1993. The academic output of Van der Wee spans economic history,the history of banking,financial history. He has performed research on the period from the Middle Ages to the present time. Geographically he has performed broad research as well,looking into Antwerp,Belgium,the Low Countries,Europe and the world.
