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This is the list of Belgian ministers of energy. List of ministers {{DEFAULTSORT:Ministry of Energy (Belgium) Belgium Energy Energy () is the physical quantity, quantitative physical property, property that is transferred to a physical body, body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of Work (thermodynamics), work and in the form of heat and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Achille Van Acker
Achille Van Acker (8 April 1898 – 10 July 1975) was a Belgian politician who served three terms as the prime minister of Belgium between 1945 and 1958. A moderate from Flanders, Van Acker was a member of the Belgian Socialist Party (PSB–BSP) and played an important role in the creation of the Belgian welfare state after World War II. Biography Early life Achille Honoré Van Acker was born into a working class family in Bruges, Belgium in 1898 as the youngest of 12 children. He only attended school until the age of 11. Despite entering the workforce, Van Acker read widely and joined several social associations in Bruges. At the outbreak of World War I, he was refused by the Belgian Army because he suffered from astigmatism. While the Germans occupied most of Belgium, Van Acker fled into the small section of unoccupied territory behind the Yser Front where he worked in various menial capacities. Mixing with Belgian soldiers during the war, Van Acker became involved in social ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ecolo
Ecolo (), officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales (, ) is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics. The party is active in Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region. Ecolo's Flemish equivalent is Groen; the two parties maintain close relations with each other. Name Ecolo is officially a backronym for ''Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales'' "Confederated Ecologists for the Organisation of Original Struggles", but is really just short for ''écologistes'', French for environmentalists. History Ecolo was part of the 1999 Verhofstadt I Government, but withdrew from the coalition before the 2003 general election, which saw it lose nearly two thirds of its 14 federal parliamentary seats in the face of a resurgent Socialist Party. The party made quite a comeback, however, in the 2007 general election, though failing to match the peak popularity it had enjoyed in 1999. In the genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Bihet
Mathieu Bihet (born 7 July 1991) is a Belgian politician of the Reformist Movement who has been serving as Minister of Energy in the De Wever Government The De Wever government is the incumbent federal government of Belgium after the 2024 Belgian federal election. On 31 January 2025, a final agreement was reached between New Flemish Alliance, N-VA, Christian Democratic and Flemish, CD&V, Voorui ... since February 2025. He previously was a member of the Chamber of Representatives between 2022 and 2025, having previously served in 2020. From 2015 to 2019, he was the leader of Jeunes MR. References 1991 births Living people Reformist Movement politicians Members of the Chamber of Representatives (Belgium) {{Belgium-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groen (political Party)
Groen (; ), founded as Agalev, is a green Flemish political party in Belgium. The main pillars of the party are social justice, human rights, and ecologism. Its French-speaking equivalent is Ecolo; the two parties maintain close relations with each other. History Agalev In 1979, the green party was founded by name of "Agalev", an acronym of "Anders Gaan Leven" ("''Towards Different Living''"). During the eighties, the party was known for being against nuclear weapons, and for being pro-Europe. In 1992 Agalev was asked to support a constitutional change called the Sint-Michiels agreement, which would make Belgium a federation. This change required a two-third majority, so the majority needed to convince some parties of the opposition to proceed. Both Agalev and Ecolo agreed, in exchange for a tax on bottles, the first ecotax in Belgium. However, after the constitutional change was voted in, the ecotax was cancelled and replaced by a watered-down concept. In the electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tinne Van Der Straeten
Tinne Van der Straeten (born 1 April 1978) is a Belgian politician who served as Minister of Energy in the De Croo Government from October 2020 until February 2025. She is a member of the Groen party. She previously served in the Chamber of Representatives for Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde from 2007 to 2010 and later for Brussels from 2019 until 2020, when she resigned to become energy minister. Early life and education In 2000, Van der Straeten obtained a degree in African Studies at Ghent University. Subsequently, she started working as a researcher at Université catholique de Louvain. After this, she went to KU Leuven, where she researched labour discrimination. After her studies, she joined Agalev and she was active in Malle. In 2008, she obtained a law degree at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Political career In the 2007 elections, Van der Straeten was elected a representative in the Belgian federal parliament for the first time. Three years later, in the 2010 elections, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Christine Marghem
Marie-Christine E. F. Marghem (born 22 May 1963 in Tournai) is a Walloon Belgian politician. She served as Federal Minister of Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development in the Wilmès Government. Education She received her degree of Law from the University of Liège. She soon after founded her own law firm in 1987. Political career Marghem began her political career by appearing on the lists of the Christian Social Party (PSC) in the local elections of 1994 in Tournai. She was elected and became municipal councillor. She then left the PSC when Gérard Deprez founded the Citizens' Movement for Change. In the October 2006 local elections, she received 4840 preference votes, the highest score. As part of her parliamentary activities, Marghem stands out nationally for her work in the Commission on sexual abuse and the Commission related to the collapse of the Dexia bank. In the October 2012 local elections, Marghem obtained 7911 votes. The MR gets 12 seats and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Fonck
Catherine Fonck (born 22 September 1968) is a nephrologist and Belgian politician. She is presently a member of the Centre démocrate humaniste (cdH). Early life and education Fonck was born in Ciney, located in the Province of Namur, within the Wallonia region of Belgium. She graduated from the Catholic University of Louvain in 1993 with a medical degree. Career Specializing in internal medicine and nephrology, she initially worked at the Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc in Brussels and later at the St. Elizabeth Maternity and Clinic in Namur. Fonck married Jacques Doyen. She held the position of Minister for Children, Youth Assistance, and Health in the French Community of Belgium from 2004 to 2009. Additionally, she served as Secretary of State for Environment and Secretary of State for Institutional Reforms in the federal caretaker government in 2014. Presently, she serves as the cdH group leader in the Chamber of Representatives since 13 October 2014. Political car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melchior Wathelet
Melchior H. M. J. F. C. Wathelet (born 6 March 1949) is a Belgian politician and member of the Humanist Democratic Centre who served as 4th Minister-President of Wallonia. He has degrees in law and in economics (University of Liège) and is a Master of Laws (Harvard University). He is also a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain and the Université de Liège. From 1995 to 2003 he was a Judge at the European Court of Justice. Following that, Wathelet served as . In 2012-2018, Wathelet served as Advocate-General at the Court of Justice. Political career *Member of the Chamber of Representatives (1977–1995) * Secretary of State for Regional Economy of the Walloon Region (1980–1981) *Minister of New Technologies and SMEs of the Walloon Region (1981–1985) * Minister-President of the Walloon Region (1985–1988) *Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice and Middle Classes (1988–1992) *Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice and Economic Affairs ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Magnette
Paul Magnette (; born 28 June 1971) is a Belgian politician. Since 2019, he is the leader of the Socialist Party, a social democratic French-speaking party in Belgium. He was mayor of Charleroi from December 2012 to December 2024. Magnette is a former political science professor at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and Director of the Institute of European Studies of the ULB. He was appointed minister in the Belgian federal government from 2007 to 2013 and was Minister-President of Wallonia from 2014 to 2017. He also was a member of the Senate of Belgium, of the Parliament of Wallonia and of the Parliament of the French Community. Biography Born on 28 June 1971 in Leuven, he grew up in Charleroi and studied political science at the Université libre de Bruxelles (1989–1994) and at Cambridge University (1994–1995). He was a researcher at the National Fund for Scientific Research (1995–2001) and obtained a PhD in 1999 with a dissertation ''Citoyenneté et construction eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Verwilghen
Marc Ernest Elisabeth Robert Juliette Verwilghen (born 21 September 1952) is a Belgian politician. Verwilghen studied law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Ghent and is the holder of an honorary doctorate from Ghent. A member of the Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten, Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD), he was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1991 and 1995, and in 1999, to the Belgian Senate. In the Chamber he served as chairman of the Justice committee, and headed two special investigative committees into the events surrounding Marc Dutroux. He served as Justice minister from 1999 to 2003, as Development co-operation minister 2003–2004, and then as Minister of Economy (fully: Economy, Small and Medium Enterprises, the Middle Classes, Energy, Overseas Trade and Science) from 2004. He was elected as a member of the Belgian Senate in 2007. Honours *2010 : Grand Officer in the Order of Leopold (Belgium), Order of Leopold. No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Vlaamse Liberalen En Democraten
The Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats (, , Open Vld) is a Flemish liberal political party in Belgium. The party has been described as centre-right and has smaller factions within the party that have conservative liberal and social liberal views. The party is a member of the Liberal Group, Renew Europe, and Liberal International. The party was created in 1992 from the former bilingual Party for Freedom and Progress (PVV) and politicians from other parties after Belgium was reconstituted as a federal state based on language, with the French-speaking faction forming the Reformist Movement (MR) in Wallonia. The party led the government for three cabinets under Guy Verhofstadt from 1999 until March 2008. Open Vld then formed the Federal Government (the so-called "Swedish government") with N-VA, CD&V and Mouvement Réformateur. In the Flemish Parliament, the VLD formed a coalition government with sp.a-Spirit and Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) from after the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fientje Moerman
Joséphine Rebecca Marie Julienne Bertha "Fientje" Moerman (born 19 October 1958) is a Belgian liberal politician and currently a judge on the Constitutional Court of Belgium. Education In 1981, Fientje Moerman obtained a master's degree in law. She studied law at the University of Ghent (Belgium) and Harvard University (United States). Professional career She started her career as a lawyer in New York City and Brussels (1982–1984). Afterwards she became editor of economy and finances for the journal De Standaard (1984–1985). In the mid-1980s she was the spokeswoman of the European liberals in the European parliament and then a consultant of the French former-president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1985–1991). Afterwards she was a senior consultant in the European liberal fraction, was specialized in institutional reforms and relations with Israel and the Gulf States (1991–1995). During 1994–1995, she was a member of the Tindemans group. Between 1988 and 1995, she also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
