 | Luc Van den Brande elected President of Committee of the Regions 12-02-2008 On 6 February 2008, Belgian politician Luc Van den Brande was elected as
President of the EU's Committee of the Regions. He is the eighth President of
the political assembly, which gives local and regional government
representatives a voice in European decision-making.
Mr Van den Brande, who has been a member of the CoR since its creation in
1994, will serve for two years in the post. He succeeds Michel Delebarre, Mayor
of Dunkirk, France, who switches roles to become First Vice-President. The
plenary session also saw the election of 27 Vice-Presidents proposed by the
national delegations and the other members of the Bureau.
A lawyer by background, Luc Van den Brande started his political career in
1977 after being elected to the Belgian House of Representatives. He became a
member of the forerunner of the Flanders Parliament in 1980 and was designated
as a Community Senator in 1999. In 1988-92, he served as Federal Minister for
Labour and Employment, before becoming Minister-President of Flanders, a post he
held until 1999.
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