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Article: WESTERN EUROPEAN UNION: BELGIAN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY.
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- European Report
- Article date:
- December 6, 2003
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On December 2 in Paris, following an agreement reached between the three main European political families, Armand De Decker, President of the Belgian Senate, was elected to take over from Luxembourgs Marcel Glesener at the helm of the Presidency of the Assembly of the Western European Union. Mr De Decker, born in Brussels on October 8 1948, was elected to Parliament for the first time in November 1981, then to the Senate in 1995, whilst also holding the post of President of the Regional Council of Bruxelles-Capitale (1995-1999). A specialist in defence questions, he was a member of the assemblies of the Council of Europe and of the Western European Union from 1982 to 1999. ...