Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome

• Main Author: Martens, Wilfried. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Science (General).; History.; Europe > Economic policy.; Political science.; Popular Science.; Popular Science, general.; Political Science.; European Integration.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89289-2

Wilfried Martens - Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome Foreword by Angela Merkel Wilfried Martens has devoted his entire life to politics: as student leader, youth activist, President of the Flemish Christian Democrats, Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European People's Party and European...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents A Life in Politics
• Childhood and Youth
• President of the (Youth of the) Flemish Christian Democrats
• Being Prime Minister in Belgium
• Reform Politics of the 1980s
• Foreign Policy
• First Period as EPP President
• Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament
• EPP President from 1999 until 2003
• Eastern Enlargement
• EPP President from 2004 until 2007
• The Future of Politics.