Education
He graduated in law and Thomistic philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven.
Diplomat politician member of the Chamber of Representatives of Belgium
He graduated in law and Thomistic philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven.
He was Secretary-General of the Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Head of the Belgian Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom at the Château of Val-Duchesse in 1956 and signed the Treaties of Rome for Belgium, together with Paul-Henri Spaak and Robert Rothschild in 1957. From 1982 until 1984, he was President of the European League for Economic Cooperation.
He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.