1. Olivier Chastel was a scientific collaborator of the Analysis Laboratory Quality Assistance in Thuin, where he once was head of department and became a specialist in Quality Assurance.
10 Facts About Olivier Chastel
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In 1998, Olivier Chastel scaled back his professional activities and became involved with local politics, combining this new challenge with his passion for tennis and for breeding the Flanders Cattle Dog "Bouvier des Flandres".
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Since 1993, Olivier Chastel has been a city councillor in Charleroi and in 1998, he joined the Parliament of Wallonia, in substitution for Etienne Knoops.
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From February until July 2004, Olivier Chastel briefly held the position of minister of arts, literature and audiovisual matters in the French Community of Belgium.
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On 20 March 2008, Olivier Chastel was appointed State Secretary for European Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy.
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Olivier Chastel succeeded Charles Michel who was elected as President of the Mouvement Reformateur.
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From 2011 until 2014, Olivier Chastel served as minister for budget and administrative simplification in the government of Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo.
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Since the 2019 European Parliament election, Olivier Chastel has been one of the vice-chairs of the Parliament's Committee on Budgets.
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Olivier Chastel is a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
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Olivier Chastel is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Artificial Intelligence and Digital, the European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights, the European Parliament Intergroup on LGBT Rights, the European Parliament Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, and the Spinelli Group.