Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers

Jean V Charles, Count Snoy et d'Oppuers (2 July 1907 in Braine-l'Alleud – 17 May 1991) was a Belgian civil servant, diplomat and Christian Democratic politician of the PSC-CVP.

Jean V Charles,
Count Snoy et d'Oppuers
Born
Braine-l'Alleud
DiedOphain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac
NationalityBelgium
Occupationpolitician
Known forMinister and mayor of Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac

Family
Main article: House of Snoy

Jean-Charles was born son of Thierry Idesbald, Baron Snoy et d'Oppuers member of the Belgian Senate, mayor and Jacqueline de Pret Roose de Calesberg.He married to Countess Nathalie d'Alcantara and they lived at the Snoy family estate, the Castle of Bois-Seigneur-Isaac.

Career

He studied 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. He notably signed the Treaties of Rome for Belgium, together with Paul-Henri Spaak and Robert Rothschild in 1957. He was Minister of Finance from 1968 to 1971. 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.[1]

References
  1. "Former Steering Committee Members". bilderbergmeetings.org. Bilderberg Group. Archived from the original on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-08.

Bibliography
  • Snoy et d'Oppuers, Jean-Charles, Rebâtir l'Europe, Mémoires, Paris, Duculot, 1989.



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