The Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats is a Flemish conservative liberal political party in Belgium. A smaller fraction within the party has social liberal views.
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 European Court of Auditors is the supreme audit institution of the European Union (EU). It was established in 1975 in Luxembourg and is one of the seven EU institutions. The Court comprises one member from each EU member state supported by approximately 800 civil servants.
Yves Camille DésiréLeterme is a Belgian politician,a leader of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V). He was the prime minister of Belgium,from November 2009 to December 2011.
Klaus-Heiner Lehne is a German lawyer and politician who has been serving as member of the European Court of Auditors (ECA) since 2014. From 2016 until 2022,he was its 11th President
The Flemish Government is the executive branch of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region of Belgium. It consists of a government cabinet,headed by the Minister-President and accountable to the Flemish Parliament,and the public administration divided into 13 policy areas,each with an executive department and multiple agencies.
Herman Achille,Count Van Rompuy is a Belgian politician,who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 2008 to 2009,and then as the first permanent president of the European Council from 2009 to 2014.
The Internal Audit Service or IAS is a Directorate-General (DG) of the European Commission that was established in 2001 to provide an increased accountability of the Commission.
Marie Arena is a Belgian politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2014. She is a member of the Socialist Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
The Leterme I Government was the federal government of Belgium from 20 March 2008 to 22 December 2008. It took office when the Flemish Christian democrat Yves Leterme (CD&V) was sworn in as Prime Minister. It followed the Belgian general election of 2007 and comprised five parties:the Dutch-speaking Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V),the Dutch-speaking Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats,the French-speaking liberal Reformist Movement (MR),the French-speaking Socialist Party (PS) and the French-speaking Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH).
The Van Rompuy Government was the federal government of Belgium from 30 December 2008 until 15 November 2009. Herman Van Rompuy was nominated as the first President of the European Council and resigned shortly after as Premier. It took office when the Flemish Christian Democrat Herman Van Rompuy was sworn in as Prime Minister after the Leterme I Government fell on 22 December 2008.
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.
Federal elections were held in Belgium on 13 June 2010,during the midst of the 2007-11 Belgian political crisis. After the fall of the previous Leterme II Government over the withdrawal of Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats from the government the King dissolved the legislature and called new elections. The New Flemish Alliance,led by Bart De Wever,emerged as the plurality party with 27 seats,just one more than the francophone Socialist Party,led by Elio Di Rupo,which was the largest party in the Wallonia region and Brussels. It took a world record 541 days until a government was formed,resulting in a government led by Di Rupo.
The European Union employs a variety of public accountability measures to review and reform budgets across government. As the EU's budget is at risk of maladministration,every year the Court of Auditors reports on the management of the budget. European Union auditors have stated that as they implement more transparency and double-entry book-keeping systems,it is likely to improve budget management.
Iliana Naidenova Ivanova is a Bulgarian economist who has been serving as European Commissioner for Innovation,Research,Culture,Education and Youth since 2023. She previouly was a member of the European Court of Auditors between 2013 and 2023.
The Di Rupo Government was the federal cabinet of Belgium sworn in on 6 December 2011,after a record-breaking 541 days of negotiations following the June 2010 elections. The government included social democrats (sp.a/PS),Christian democrats (CD&V/cdH) and liberals,respectively of the Dutch and French language groups. The government notably excluded the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA),the Flemish nationalist party which achieved a plurality and became the largest party. Its absence,together with the unwillingness of Open Vld to enter into an eight-party coalition that included the green parties,caused the government coalition to lack a majority in the Dutch language group. It was the first time that the Belgian prime minister had been openly gay,as Di Rupo became the world's first male openly gay head of government. Elio Di Rupo also became the first native French-speaking prime minister since 1979 and the first prime minister from Wallonia since 1974 and first socialist prime minister since 1974.
Rudy Aernoudt is a Belgian professor,writer,politician,economist and philosopher,born in Torhout. He was many times Chief of staff of the Ministers of economy and innovation both in Flanders and in Wallonia,of the Belgian Minister of economics and scientific policy and of the President of the European Economic and Social Committee,Henri Malosse. He is the only person to serve as Head of Cabinet at the European,Belgian,Walloon and Flemish levels. He is professor of corporate finance at the Universities of Ghent and Nancy and Professor of Economics,Monetary and Geopolitical Environment for the International Executive MBA,a joint venture of HEC Paris and UCLouvain.
Bart Joris Tommelein is a Belgian politician of Open Vld who was minister in the Bourgeois Government and is the incumbent mayor of Ostend.
The High Council of Public Finances (HCFP) is an independent fiscal oversight body created by the Organic Law 2012-1403 in December 2012 by the French government in the framework European Union budgetary coordination. Its aim is to evaluate the assumptions made by the government in relation to the budgets and to ensure the coherence of public finances with the European budgetary agreements and pacts to which France is party. The HCFP operates under the responsibility of the Court of Audit.
