Background
TINDEMANS, Leo was born on April 16, 1922 in Zwijndrecht, Belgium.
Chairman of the European Peoples Party
TINDEMANS, Leo was born on April 16, 1922 in Zwijndrecht, Belgium.
Bachelor of Commercial and Consular Science. Bachelor of Economic Science. Harvard International Seminar, Bachelor of Political and Social Science.
Minister of Community Affairs 1968-1971. Minister of Agriculture and Middle Class Affairs 1972-1973. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Budget and Institutional Problems 1973-1974. Prime Minister 1974-1978. Minister of Foreign Affairs 1981-1989. Vice-President European Union of Christian Democrats. President European People's Party 1976-1985. President Belgian Christian People's Party (CVP) 1979-1981. Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Catholic University, Louvain. Honorary Doctor of Letters (City University, London) 1976. Honorary degree (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh) 1978, (Georgetown University) 1984. Charlemagne.
Chamber of Deputies 1961-1989. European Pari. since 1989.
Married Rosa Naesens in 1960.