TINDEMANS, Leo

CVP
Born on 16.4.1922 in Zwijndrecht

Masters Degree in business, economic, political and social sciences; Professor at the KUL; first holder of the Jacques Delors chair;

1961989 Member of Parliament
1965976 Mayor of Edegem
1976985 President of the EPP
1979981 President of the CVP
1968972 Minister for Community Affairs
1972973 Minister for Agriculture and SMEs
1973974 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Budgets
1974978 Prime Minister
1981989 Minister for External Relations
From 1992 to July 1994 President of the EPP Group

MEP from 17 July 19797 December 1981 and from 25 July 1989-July 1999.

European Parliament: Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defense, Member of the Sub-committee of Security and Disarmament, subsitute Member of the Committee on External Economic Relations.

Publications:

1958 Ontwikkeling van de Benelux
1971 L'autonomie culturelle
1972 Regionalized Belgium, Transition from the Nation State to the Multinational State
1972 Een handvest voor woelig België
1973 Dagboek van de werkgroep Eyskens
1975 European Union
1976 Europe, Ideal of Our Generation
1978 Open Brief aan Gaston Eyskens
1980 Atlantisch Europa
1987 Europa zonder Kompas
1989 L'Europe de l'Est vue de Bruxelles
1991 Duel met de Minister
1992 The Future of an Idea
1997 Kain in de Balkan