Luc Van den Brande
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. On 6 February 2008 he became President of the European Union's Committee of the Regions for a period of two years.
Studies
Political career
Parliamentarian mandates
- Member of the Belgian House of Representatives for the district of Mechelen
- Leader of the Christian Democratic group CVP
- Member of the Council of Culture and the Flemish Council
- Senator for the district of Mechelen-Turnhout
- Member of the Flemish Parliament for Mechelen-Turnhout
- President of the Commission for Foreign and European Affairs
- Member of the Flemish Parliament for the province of Antwerp since June 2004
- Community Senator
- Member of the Federal advisory Committee on European Affairs
Governmental functions
- Federal Minister of Employment and Labour
- President of the Government of Flanders and Minister for Economic Affairs, Small and Medium-Sized Business, Science Policy, Energy and Foreign Relations
- Minister-President of the Government of Flanders and Minister for Economic Affairs, Small and Medium-Sized Business, Science Policy, Energy and Foreign Relations
- Minister-President of the Government of Flanders, Minister for Foreign Policy, European Affairs, Science and Technology
European mandates and responsibilities
- Member of the Bureau of the Assembly of European Regions
- Vice-president and president of the Assembly of European Regions
- Member of the Committee of the Regions
- Vice-president of the Committee of the Regions – Head of the Belgian delegation
- First Vice-president of the Committee of the Regions
- President of the Committee of the Regions of the EU
- Leader of the Christian Democratic Group in the Advisory Inter-parliamentary Council of the Benelux countries
[Council of Europe]
- Effective member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
- Vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly
- President of the Group EPP/CD in the Parliamentary Assembly and thus also member of the Presidential Committee, the Bureau and the Standing Committee
- Effective member of the Political Affaires Committee and the Committee on the Honouring of obligations and commitments by member states, known as the Monitoring Committee;
- Member of various subcommittees
- Several times rapporteur on various occasions, e.g. monitoring of Turkey and the Russian Federation
- Leader of the observatory delegation for the legislative elections and of ad hoc committees
- Representative of the Parliamentarian Assembly at the Committee of Ministers for the negotiations concerning the MOU between the Council and the UE
- President of the Council for Democratic Elections of the Venice Commission
[Western European Union]
- Effective member of the Assembly of the Western European Union
Other representations
- Co-President of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly
- Extraordinary Professor on Politic institutions – KU Leuven
- President Flanders Technology International
- President Lemmens Institute
- President International Association Anton van Wilderode
Political and social interest
- General politics, economic, scientific and technological policies, State reforms, European and foreign policy