Anderlecht is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region,Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region,it is bordered by the City of Brussels,Forest,Molenbeek-Saint-Jean,and Saint-Gilles,as well as the Flemish municipalities of Dilbeek and Sint-Pieters-Leeuw. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities,it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch).
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.
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.
The Reformist Movement is a liberal French-speaking political party in Belgium. MR is traditionally a conservative-liberal party,but it also contains social-liberal factions.
Elio Di Rupo is a Belgian politician who has served as the minister-president of Wallonia since 2019. He is affiliated with the Socialist Party. Di Rupo previously served as the prime minister of Belgium from 6 December 2011 to 11 October 2014,heading the Di Rupo Government. He was the first francophone to hold the office since Paul Vanden Boeynants in 1979,and the country's first socialist prime minister since Edmond Leburton left office in 1974. Di Rupo was also Belgium's first prime minister of non-Belgian descent,and the world's second openly gay person and first openly gay man to be head of government in modern times.
The Universitélibre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking research university in Brussels,Belgium. ULB is one of the two institutions tracing their origins to the Free University of Brussels,founded in 1834 by the lawyer and liberal politician Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen.
Camille Chautemps was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic,three times President of the Council of Ministers.
Hannes Swoboda is an Austrian social democratic politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1996 until 2014. Within the Parliament,he represents the Social Democratic Party of Austria and from January 2012 to June 2014,he was also the President of the group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
Jacques Simonet was a Belgian politician and a former Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region.
Daniel Ducarme was a Belgian politician and former Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region.
Paul Magnette,born 28 June 1971 in Leuven ( Belgium),is a Belgian politician. Since 2019,he is the leader of the Socialist Party,social democratic French-speaking party in Belgium. Since 2012,he is also mayor of Charleroi. At academic level,he is a former political science professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and Director of the Institute of European Studies of the ULB. He was appointed minister in the Belgian federal government from 2007 to 2013 and was Minister-President of Wallonia from 2014 to 2017. He also was a member of the Senate of Belgium,of the Parliament of Wallonia and of the Parliament of the French Community.
Antoinette Spaak was a Belgian politician and leading figure within Francophone and regionalist politics in Brussels. She was born into a noted political family and entered politics as part of the regionalist Democratic Front of Francophones in 1972. She held the presidency of the FDF from 1977 to 1982 and later advocated conciliation between Francophone centrist political parties. This brought the FDF into an electoral coalition ahead of the 1999 election and paved the way for its absorption into the Reformist Movement in 2002. Spaak held various political offices in Belgium and the European Communities until retiring from politics in 2009.
Piet Vermeylen,was a Belgian lawyer,and socialist politician and minister. He was the son of the Flemish politician August Vermeylen.
Events from the year 2007 in Belgium
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.
Lajos András Bokros is a Hungarian economist,who served as Minister of Finance from 1995 to 1996. He was a Member of the European Parliament for Hungary in the 2009–2014 session. He was the leader of the Movement for a Modern Hungary,which he founded in April 2013,and sat in the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the European Parliament. The Bokros package was named after him.
The Leterme II Government was the federal government of Belgium from 25 November 2009 to 26 April 2010,and the caretaker government until 6 December 2011. It took office when the Flemish Christian Democrat Yves Leterme (CD&V) was sworn in as Prime Minister. It followed the Van Rompuy I Government which ended when Herman Van Rompuy became the first President of the European Council. It 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).
Olivier Chastel is a Belgian pharmacist and politician of the Liberal Party "Mouvement Réformateur" (MR) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
The Verhofstadt II Government was the federal government of Belgium from 12 July 2003 to 21 December 2007.
Lars Patrick Berg is a German politician who is serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. He was elected with the Alternative for Germany party,he left the party and the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament to join the European Conservatives and Reformists in June 2021 and the Liberal Conservative Reformers party in Germany in July 2021. In January 2023 he left the Liberal Conservative Reformers party and joined the Bündnis Deutschland party. He was a member of the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 2016–2019.
