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Author Martens, Wilfried.

Title Europe : I struggle, I overcome / Wilfried Martens ; foreword by Angela Merkel
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer ; [Berlin] : Center for European Studies, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 276 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Machine generated contents note: Ch. I Looking back on my life -- Ch. II Conviction and responsibility -- Ch. III In charge of a restless state -- Ch. IV Small country, large responsibilities -- Ch. V My road towards Maastricht -- Ch. VI "O Hellenic shore where our fathers dwell ..." -- Ch. VII fall of Santer -- Ch. VIII Cordon Sanitaire around Austria -- Ch. IX "He did not take the fruit of those who had planted the tree ..." -- Ch. X Pushing forward in Europe and beyond
Summary 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 statesman. This autobiography offers the inside story on running a complex country like Belgium
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Martens, Wilfried.
Martens, Wilfried
European People's Party.
European People's Party
Statesmen -- Belgium -- Biography
Ex-prime ministers -- Belgium -- Biography
History.
History
history (discipline)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- General.
Sciences humaines.
Sciences sociales.
Ex-prime ministers
Politics and government
Statesmen
Belgium -- Politics and government -- 1951-1993.
Belgium
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783540892892
3540892893
Other Titles Memoirs. English