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Wednesday, 29 August 2012

VIVA BOMMA: Léopold II s'adresse aux Congolais / Leopold II spreekt tot Congo

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Leo Tindemans

Prime Minister of Belgium
In office 25 April 1974 – 20 October 1978
Monarch	Baudouin
Preceded by	Edmond Leburton
Succeeded by	Paul Vanden Boeynants
Foreign Minister of Belgium
In office 1981–1989
Preceded by	Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb
Succeeded by	Mark Eyskens
1st President of the European People's Party
In office 1976–1985
Succeeded by	Piet Bukman
Personal details
Born	(1922-04-16) 16 April 1922 (age 90) Zwijndrecht, Belgium
Political party	Christian Democratic and Flemish
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Leonard Clemence “Leo” Tindemans (Dutch: [ˈleˑ(ɪ̯)oˑ ˈtɪndəmɑns] ( listen)) (born 16 April 1922) is a Belgian politician and the 43rd Prime Minister. He was born in Zwijndrecht.

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Tindemans was affiliated with the CVP. This party is strong in the northern region of Flanders. Tindemans was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1961 and re-elected in 1965, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1978. From 1965 to 1973 Tindemans also served as the mayor of Edegem.

In 1968 Tindemans became minister tasked with the relations between the communities (1968–1972) during which he prepared the first constitutional reform which saw Belgium start transforming into a federal state. In 1972 he became minister for agriculture (1972–1973). In 1973 he became deputy Prime Minister and minister for the budget (1973–1974). Tindemans served as Prime Minister of two Belgian governments, from 25 April 1974 to 20 October 1978. His first cabinet was a minority government formed by the Christian-democrats and liberals. When his first government fell in 1977, Tindemans won the snap general election which followed and formed his second cabinet with the Christian-democrats, socialists and Flemish nationalists. His second government (1977–1978) fell due to the controversy surrounding the Egmont pact.

In 1976, during the founding Congress of the European People's Party in Brussels, he was elected first President of the new party, a role which gave him the important tasks of harmonising and finding consensus between the different leaders and member parties of the EPP and of leading the party during the first direct elections to the European Parliament in 1979.

Tindemans was elected to the European Parliament with a record number of votes (983.000 votes, which is still a record for any election in Belgium) and was a member of that parliament from 1979-1981 (during which time he also was chairman of the CVP). With the general elections of 1981 Tindemans returned to the Belgian politics and became minister of foreign affairs (1981–1989). With the European elections in 1989 Tindemans went back to the European Parliament where he served two terms until he retired in 1999. During 1994-1995 he was chairman of the Tindemans group.

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Preceded by Edmond Leburton	Prime Minister of Belgium 1974–1978	Succeeded by Paul Vanden Boeynants

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de Gerlache · Lebeau · de Muelenaere · Goblet d'Alviella · de Meylandt · Lebeau · Nothomb · Van de Weyer · de Meylandt · Rogier · de Brouckère · de Decker · Rogier · Frère-Orban · d'Anethan · Malou · Frère-Orban · Malou · Beernaert · de Burlet · de Smet de Naeyer · Vandenpeereboom · de Smet de Naeyer · de Trooz · Schollaert · de Broqueville · Cooreman · Delacroix · Carton de Wiart · Theunis · Van de Vyvere · Poullet · Jaspar · Renkin · de Broqueville · Theunis · van Zeeland · Janson · Spaak · Pierlot · Van Acker · Spaak · Van Acker · Huysmans · Spaak · G. Eyskens · Duvieusart · Pholien · Van Houtte · Van Acker · G. Eyskens · Lefèvre · Harmel · Vanden Boeynants · G. Eyskens · Leburton · Tindemans · Vanden Boeynants · Martens · M. Eyskens · Martens · Dehaene · Verhofstadt · Leterme · Van Rompuy · Leterme · Di Rupo

v t e Presidents of the European Council

President-in-Office (1975–2009)	Liam Cosgrave · Aldo Moro · Gaston Thorn · Joop den Uyl · James Callaghan · Leo Tindemans · Anker Jørgensen · Helmut Schmidt · Valéry Giscard d'Estaing · Jack Lynch · Francesco Cossiga · Charles Haughey · Pierre Werner · Dries van Agt · Margaret Thatcher · Wilfried Martens · Anker Jørgensen · Poul Schlüter · Helmut Kohl · Andreas Papandreou · François Mitterrand · Garret FitzGerald · Bettino Craxi · Jacques Santer · Ruud Lubbers · Margaret Thatcher · Wilfried Martens · Poul Schlüter · Helmut Kohl · Andreas Papandreou · Felipe González · François Mitterrand · Charles Haughey · Giulio Andreotti · Jacques Santer · Ruud Lubbers · Poul Schlüter · Aníbal Cavaco Silva · John Major · Poul Nyrup Rasmussen · Jean-Luc Dehaene · Andreas Papandreou · Helmut Kohl · Jacques Chirac · Felipe González · Lamberto Dini · Romano Prodi · John Bruton · Wim Kok · Jean-Claude Juncker · Tony Blair · Viktor Klima · Gerhard Schröder · Paavo Lipponen · António Guterres · Jacques Chirac · Göran Persson · Guy Verhofstadt · José María Aznar López · Anders Fogh Rasmussen · Costas Simitis · Silvio Berlusconi · Bertie Ahern · Jan Peter Balkenende · Jean-Claude Juncker · Tony Blair · Wolfgang Schüssel · Matti Vanhanen · Angela Merkel · José Sócrates · Janez Janša · Nicolas Sarkozy · Mirek Topolánek · Jan Fischer · Fredrik Reinfeldt

Permanent President (since 2009)	Herman Van Rompuy

Recipients of the Charlemagne Prize

Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi (1950)
Hendrik Brugmans (1951)
Alcide de Gasperi (1952)
Jean Monnet (1953)
Konrad Adenauer (1954)
Sir Winston S. Churchill (1956)
Paul Henri Spaak (1957)
Robert Schuman (1958)
George C. Marshall (1959)
Joseph Bech (1960)
Walter Hallstein (1961)
Edward Heath (1963)
Antonio Segni (1964)
Jens Otto Krag (1966)
Joseph Luns (1967)
The European Commission (1969)
François Seydoux de Clausonne (1970)
Roy Jenkins (1972)
Don Salvador de Madariaga (1973)
Leo Tindemans (1976)
Walter Scheel (1977)
Konstantinos Karamanlis (1978)
Emilio Colombo (1979)
Simone Veil (1981)
King Juan Carlos of Spain (1982)
The People of Luxembourg (1986)
Henry A. Kissinger (1987)
François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl (1988)
Frère Roger (1989)
Gyula Horn (1990)
Václav Havel (1991)
Jacques Delors (1992)
Felipe González Márquez (1993)
Gro Harlem Brundtland (1994)
Franz Vranitzky (1995)
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (1996)
Roman Herzog (1997)
Bronisław Geremek (1998)
Anthony (Tony) Charles Lynton Blair (1999)
William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton (2000)
György Konrád (2001)
The euro (2002)
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Pat Cox (2004)
Extraordinary prize: Pope John Paul II (2004)
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (2005)
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Javier Solana (2007)
Angela Merkel (2008)
Andrea Riccardi (2009)
Donald Tusk (2010)
Jean-Claude Trichet (2011)
Wolfgang Schäuble (2012)

Persondata
Name	Tindemans, Leo
Alternative names
Short description	Belgian politician
Date of birth	16 April 1922
Place of birth	Zwijndrecht, Belgium
Date of death
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