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Philippe Busquin
Official portrait, 1999
European Commissioner for Research
In office 13 September 1999 – 12 September 2004
President
Romano Prodi
Preceded by
Édith Cresson (Research, Science and Technology)
Succeeded by
Louis Michel
Leader of the Socialist Party
In office 1992–1999
Preceded by
Guy Spitaels
Succeeded by
Elio Di Rupo
Personal details
Born
(1941-01-06) 6 January 1941 (age 83) Feluy, Belgium
Political party
Socialist Party
Alma mater
Free University of Brussels
Philippe Busquin (French pronunciation:[filipbyskɛ̃]; born 6 January 1941) is a Belgian politician.
Busquin was born in Feluy. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2009 for the French Community of Belgium with the Parti Socialiste, part of the Socialist Group and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. Busquin was the chairman of the Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel. He also was a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. His tendency to stutter has been the subject of satirical videos on YouTube, some garnering hundreds of thousands of hits.[1]
From 1999 to 2004, he was Member of the European Commission with responsibility for research.
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