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Luc Van den Brande

Regional champion

By Els Samyn  -  03.04.2008 / 00:00 CET
The new president of the Committee of Regions is -- fittingly -- the former head of a region that knows a thing or two about keeping power local: Flanders.

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1945: Born in Mechelen, Belgium
1970-88: Lawyer, Mechelen Bar
1977-99: Member of Belgian parliament
1988-92: Federal minister of employment and labour
1992-99: Minister-president of the government of Flanders
1994-98: Vice-president of the Committee of the Regions
1999: Member of Belgian senate
2000-02: Vice-president of the Committee of the Regions
2001-03: Member of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly
2008: President of the Committee of the Regions

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