Jean Luc Joseph Marie "Jean-Luc" Dehaene was a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1992 until 1999.
20 Facts About Jean-Luc Dehaene
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Jean-Luc Dehaene was on UEFA's financial fair play regulatory body and managed Dexia Bank during the financial crisis.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene was the last prime minister of King Baudouin's reign.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene was born on 7 August 1940 in Montpellier, France, when his parents were fleeing the advance of the German army into Belgium and France.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene got into politics through the Algemeen Christelijk Werknemersverbond, a trade union which was closely linked to the Christelijke Volkspartij.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene's long-time wife Celie Verbeke is a native of Illinois in the United States but both her paternal and maternal grandparents were Belgian immigrants.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene was a keen football fan, and viewed it as an important part of Belgian national identity.
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In 1992, after both Guy Verhofstadt and Melchior Wathelet had failed, Jean-Luc Dehaene managed to form a governing coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats.
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In March 1993, Jean-Luc Dehaene offered the King the resignation of his government, because of diverging views on how to handle the public finances.
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In 1994, Jean-Luc Dehaene ordered the unilateral withdrawal of Belgian troops from Rwanda following the massacre of a number of Belgian peacekeepers, thus lifting the last barrier to the genocide of Tutsis.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene was the leading candidate to replace Jacques Delors as President of the European Commission, but British Prime Minister John Major vetoed the appointment.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene led Belgium into the Euro, and in preparation for joining the Eurozone, the Jean-Luc Dehaene government was forced to make some sharp and unpopular economic reforms.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene was replaced by a new government, led by Flemish liberal Guy Verhofstadt.
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Between 2006 and 2007, Jean-Luc Dehaene served as member of the Amato Group, a group of high-level European politicians unofficially working on rewriting the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe into what became known as the Treaty of Lisbon following its rejection by French and Dutch voters.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene was called in to assist in the negotiations around the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde partition.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene served as the chief enforcer of the football association, UEFA's, Financial Fair Play.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene, who had previously been director of InBev, became chairman of Dexia Bank, a Belgian-French bank, in October 2008.
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On 15 May 2014, Jean-Luc Dehaene died after a fall while holidaying in Quimper in France.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier the same year and was not seeking reelection as an MEP in the 2014 elections for health reasons.
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Jean-Luc Dehaene's body lay in state in Vilvoorde's town hall and the retired King Albert II and the Flemish Minister-President Kris Peeters both visited Vilvoorde to pay their respects.