Philippe Busquin

Philippe Busquin
Philippe Busquin
European Commissioner for Research
	In office; 13 September 1999 – 12 September 2004
President	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Édith Cresson (Research, Science and Technology)
Succeeded by	Louis Michel
Leader of the Socialist Party
	In office; 1992–1999
Preceded by	Guy Spitaels
Succeeded by	Elio Di Rupo
Personal details
Born	6 January 1941; Feluy, Belgium
Political party	Socialist Party
Alma mater	Free University of Brussels

Philippe Busquin (born 6 January 1941) is a Belgian politician.

Busquin was born in Feluy. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009 for the French Community of Belgium with the Parti Socialiste, part of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Busquin was the chairman of the Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel. He also was a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. His tendency to stutter has been the subject of satirical videos on YouTube, some garnering hundreds of thousands of hits.[1]

From 1999 to 2004, he was Member of the European Commission with responsibility for research.

Education

1962: Degree in physics from the Free University of Brussels
1976: Postgraduate certificate in environmental studies
1980: First degree in philosophy at the Free University of Brussels

Career

1962–1977: Lecturer at the Nivelles teacher training college
Assistant lecturer at the Free University of Brussels
1992–1999: Chairman of the PS
since 1992: Vice-President of the Socialist International
1994–1996: Vice-President of the PES
1995–1999: Mayor of Seneffe
1977–1978: Ordinary Member for the province of Hainaut
1982–1986: Minister for the Budget and Energy for the Walloon Region
1986: Minister of Economic Affairs for the Walloon Region
1979–1994: Member of the national Parliament
1994–1999: Senator
1980–1982: Minister of Education
1981: Minister of the Interior
1987: Minister for Social Affairs
since 1992: Minister of State
1999–2004: Member of the European Commission with responsibility for research
2004–2009: Member of the European Parliament (MEP)

Honours

He was awarded:[2]

Belgium : Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold II (1995)
Belgium : Commander of the Order of Leopold (1987)
Belgium : Civic Medal, First Class (1988)
Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University (2004)[3]

gollark: I mostly interact with good scientific ones these days.

gollark: Integer square root is not too horrible.

gollark: no.

gollark: Throw water at specific bits.

gollark: You're going to have a TOML binding file like this:```tomlfile = "io.o"[io][io.putchar]name = "io_putchar"args = 1[io.putint]name = "io_putint"args = 1```declaring functions from an object file.

External links

Personal profile of Philippe Busquin in the European Parliament's database of members
Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in French)

References

Video on YouTube
Belgian Senate, Biography
"HW minutes 2004" (PDF).

Political offices
Preceded by Karel Van Miert	Belgian European Commissioner 1999–2004	Succeeded by Louis Michel
Preceded by Édith Cresson as European Commissioner for Research, Science and Technology	European Commissioner for Research 1999–2004	Succeeded by Louis Michel
Party political offices
Preceded by Guy Spitaels	Leader of the Socialist Party 1992–1999	Succeeded by Elio Di Rupo

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[1] Video on YouTube

[2] Belgian Senate, Biography

[3] "HW minutes 2004" (PDF).