Education
1988: Degree in translation
1991: Post-graduate qualification in marketing.
Member of the European Parliament politician
1988: Degree in translation
1991: Post-graduate qualification in marketing.
1988: Degree in translation 1995–1999: Chairman of the Vlaams Blok youth wing since 1999: Chief editor of the Vlaams Blok magazine 1995–2003: Group secretary in the Flemish Parliament.
He sits on its Committee on Foreign Affairs, and is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and and a member of the Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand. Since late 2010, he has been a board member of the pan-European eurosceptic party European Alliance for Freedom. Since 1995: Member of the party executive
1995–2003: Member of the Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde district executive
2003-2014: Member of the European Parliament.