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Parti Réformateur Libéral
The Liberal Reformist Party (, , PRL) was a liberal political party active in Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas .... 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. History In 1971, the Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV-PLP), inheritor to the historical Liberal Party of Belgium, split into a Flemish and a Francophone party, anticipating the political devolution bill of 1980. Initially keeping the French version of the old party name (''Parti de la liberté et du progrès''), the party relaunched as the ''Party of Reforms and Freedom of Wallonia'' (Parti des réformes et de la liberté de Wallonie, PRLW) after taki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Party For Freedom And Progress
The Party for Freedom and Progress (; ; ; PVV-PLP) was a liberalism, liberal political party in Belgium which existed from 1961 until 1992. The party was the successor of the Liberal Party (Belgium), Liberal Party, which had roots dating back to 1846. It was succeeded in the Flemish Community, Flemish Community of Belgium by the Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) and in the French Community of Belgium, French Community by the Liberal Reformist Party (Belgium), Liberal Reformist Party, ''Parti des Réformes et des Libertés de Wallonie'' and the current-day Mouvement Réformateur, Reformist Movement. In the German-speaking Community, it continued to exist as the Perspectives. Freedom. Progress., Party for Freedom and Progress up to 2023. History Foundation of a new party In 1961, Omer Vanaudenhove, leader of the Liberal Party, reorganised it into the Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang/Parti de la Liberté et du Progrès (PVV/PLP). The n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfried Martens
Wilfried Achiel Emma Martens (; 19 April 1936 – 9 October 2013) 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 Democratic and Flemish, Christian People's Party, during his premiership he oversaw the State reform in Belgium, transformation of Belgium into a federal state. He was one of the founders of the European People's Party. During his time as prime minister, Martens led a series of centre-right and centre-left cabinets. Early life Martens was born on 19 April 1936 in the village of Sleidinge, East Flanders, the son of modest small farmers. He studied law at the Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968), Catholic University of Leuven, graduating in 1960. Martens became active in the Flemish Movement as a student. He began to draw public attention in 1957 when, as president of the Flemish Youth Committee, he organized a march to protest the lack of Flemish presence in the 1958 Brus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Defraigne
Jean Pierre Marie Olivier Germain Defraigne (; 19 April 1929 – 15 March 2016) was a Belgian liberal politician and minister for the Liberal Reformist Party (PRL). Career Defraigne graduated as a doctor of law at the Université de Liège and was a lawyer and alderman in Liège. He was member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (1965–1974 and 1977–1989) and senator in the Belgian Senate (1974–1977) for the PRL and was President (1981–1988) of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives of public work (1974–1976). In 1983, Jean Defraigne was appointed as minister of state Minister of state is a designation for a government minister, with varying meanings in different jurisdictions. In a number of European countries, the title is given as an honorific conferring a higher rank, often bestowed upon senior minister .... From 1989 to 1994 Defraigne served as a Member of the European Parliament, where he sat with the Liberal, Democrat and Reformist Group. Sources ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister-President Of The Walloon Region
The minister-president of Wallonia () is the head of the Government of Wallonia, the executive power of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. The official residence, known as the Élysette, is in Namur, along the Meuse River. The minister-president should not be confused with the minister-president of the French Community of Belgium, which is currently led by Élisabeth Degryse. List of officeholders Timeline ImageSize = width:800 height:auto barincrement:12 PlotArea = top:10 bottom:50 right:130 left:20 AlignBars = late Colors = id:liberal value:rgb(0,0,1) legend:Liberal id:christian value:rgb(1,0.6,0) legend:Christian_Democrat id:socialist value:rgb(1,0,0) legend:Social_Democrat id:gray1 value:gray(0.8) id:gray2 value:gray(0.9) DateFormat = dd/mm/yyyy Period = from:01/01/1981 till:01/01/2026 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal ScaleMajor = gridcolor:gray1 unit:year increment:5 start:1985 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:gray2 unit:year increm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The European Parliament
A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and Steel Community) first met in 1952, its members were directly appointed by the governments of member states from among those already sitting in their own national parliaments. Since 1979, however, MEPs have been elected by direct universal suffrage every five years. Each Member state of the European Union, member state establishes its own method for electing MEPs – and in some states this has changed over time – but the system chosen must be a form of proportional representation. Some member states elect their MEPs to represent a single national constituency; other states apportion seats to sub-national regions for election. There may also be non-voting observers when a Enlargement of the European Union, new country is seeking membershi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Ducarme
Daniel Ducarme (; 8 March 1954, Liège – 28 August 2010) was a Belgian politician and former Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region. Background and political affiliation Starting his political career in the Liberal Reformist Party (PRL), Ducarme served as mayor of Thuin in Wallonia from 1988 to 2000, becoming party president in 1999. In 2000 he moved to Schaerbeek in the Brussels-Capital Region and stood for election to the Schaerbeek council. The PRL merged with its centre-right partners to create the Reformist Movement (MR) in 2002, which Ducarme led as president. Ducarme has voiced his support for Rattachism. Brussels Minister-President In 2003 he replaced his MR colleague François-Xavier de Donnéa as Minister-President of the Brussels-Capital Region, provoking considerable resentment among parties representing the Flemish-speaking community as he was essentially a monoglot Francophone, unlike his predecessors as Minister-President. Resignation and suc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antoine Duquesne
Antoine Duquesne (; 3 February 1941 – 4 November 2010) was a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the French Community of Belgium with the MR/ MCC/ PRL, Member of the Bureau of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. Career In 1965, Duquesne became a Doctor of Law at the University of Liège. From 1965 to 1971 he served as an assistant lecturer in the Faculty of Law of that university. He was a practising lawyer from 1965 to 1975 and again from 1988. From 1975 to 1977 he was Deputy Secretary-General of the National Committee for Training and Further Training in Trade and Commerce. Frol 1977 to 1982 he served as general administrator of the National Committee for Coordination and Dialogue on Continuing Education for Small Businesses and the French-Speaking Institute for Continuing Training for Small Businesses. From 1983 to 1988 he was the Director of the National Fund for Professional Credit. Political career From 1973 to 1987 Duquesne se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Michel
Louis Michel (; born 2 September 1947) is a Belgian politician. He served in the government of Belgium as minister of foreign affairs from 1999 to 2004 and was European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid from 2004 to 2009. From 2009 to 2019, he was a Member of the European Parliament. Michel is a prominent member of the French-speaking liberal party, the ''Mouvement Réformateur''. He is the father of Charles Michel, a former prime minister of Belgium and previous president of the European Council. Family roots The Michel family comes from the Flemish town Hoegaarden, just across the 1963 official linguistic border and the frontier between the present (since 1994) provinces of Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant. There, it has been nicknamed from the 19th century onward as the ‘Sellekes’. Louis Michel "went to school in Hoegaarden and still speaks perfectly the local dialect". His family moved from Hoegaarden to Zétrud-Lumay in 1955. Early professional car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Gol
Jean Gol (; 8 February 1942 – 18 September 1995) 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. Early life His Jewish parents, Stanislas Gol (1908–1976), born in Warsaw, and Léa Karny (1911–2001), born in Liège to parents born in present-day Lithuania (then Russian Empire), were both medical doctors with diplomas from the University of Liège. After the Nazi invasion of Belgium in 1940, the Karny family and their stepsons took refuge in England, via France, Algeria, Morocco and Portugal. Stanislas Gol enlisted in the Belgian Army in the United Kingdom, and Léa gave birth to Jean in exile. The family returned to Belgium in 1945, but Léa's parents, Coussel Karny (1883–1944), and Yocheved Chamech (1886–1944), had gone back to Liège in December 1940, and had been deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in July 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Damseaux
André Damseaux (5 March 1937 – 29 March 2007) was a Belgian politician, second Minister-President of Wallonia and Member of the European Parliament. Life André Damseaux was born on 5 March 1937 in Verviers, Belgium. In 1961, Damseaux gained a degree in diplomatic science from the University of Liège and a degree in political science from the same university three years later. After working as a journalist with '' La Meuse'' newspaper, Damseaux served on the council of Verviers, beginning in 1965. This was a position he would hold for over three decades, ending in 1999.Damseaux, André – . Retrieved 2010-02-21. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milou Jeunehomme
Emile-Edgar (Milou) Jeunehomme (1924–2001) was a Belgian liberal politician. On 15 January 1958 he became a member of parliament for the district Liège. He played for a long time an important role in the liberal party under Omer Vanaudenhove but gradually withdrew himself from politics after 1969. He was co-president of the liberal party The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the right to social liberalism on the left. For example, while the political systems ... in 1968–1969, together with Norbert Hougardy. Sources Presidents of the Belgian liberal party 1924 births 2001 deaths Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats politicians Walloon movement activists Walloon politicians {{Wallonia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Partei Für Freiheit Und Fortschritt
Perspectives. Freedom. Progress. (, PFF) is a regional liberal political party in the German-speaking Community of Belgium. Until 2023, the party still retained the German version of the name of the all-Belgian liberal party in the sixties, the Party for Freedom and Progress () before changing to its current name, and it is a constituent member of the Reformist Movement. Election results European Parliament See also *Liberalism *Contributions to liberal theory * Liberalism worldwide * List of liberal parties *Liberal democracy Liberal democracy, also called Western-style democracy, or substantive democracy, is a form of government that combines the organization of a democracy with ideas of liberalism, liberal political philosophy. Common elements within a liberal dem ... * Liberalism in Belgium References External links Official website 1961 establishments in Belgium Conservative liberal parties Classical liberal parties Liberal parties in Belgium Political pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
