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Gaston Eyskens was born on 1 April, 1905 in Lier, Belgium, is a Belgian prime minister (1905–1988). Discover Gaston Eyskens's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 83 years old?

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Age 83 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 1 April 1905
Birthday 1 April
Birthplace Lier, Belgium
Date of death 1988
Died Place Leuven, Belgium
Nationality Belgium

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1875

Eyskens was born in Lier, the son of Antonius Franciscus Eyskens (1875–1948) and Maria Voeten (1872–1960).

1905

Gaston François Marie, Viscount Eyskens (1 April 1905 – 3 January 1988) was a Christian democratic politician and prime minister of Belgium.

He was also an economist and member of the Belgian Christian Social Party (CVP-PSC).

1927

In 1927 he became Master of Science at Columbia University.

1930

During the early 1930s Eyskens was chief of staff of CVP ministers Edmond Rubbens and Philip Van Isacker.

1931

On 10 August 1931 he married Gilberte Depetter (1902–1981), with whom he had two sons: Erik Eyskens (Leuven 20 July 1935 – Antwerpen 31 August 2008) and Mark Eyskens.

In 1931 Eyskens became a professor at the University of Leuven.

He later became dean of the economics faculty.

He also served on the board of Lovanium University in the Congo.

Eyskens was made doctor honoris causa by Columbia University, the University of Cologne and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

1939

In 1939 Eyskens was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.

1945

In 1945 and between 1947 and 1949 he was Minister of Finance.

1946

He was steadily re-elected (in 1946, 1949, 1950, 1954, 1958 and 1961) and served until 1965.

1949

He served three terms as the prime minister of Belgium, holding the position from 1949 to 1950, 1958 to 1961 and 1968 to 1973.

On 11 August 1949 he became Prime Minister of Belgium in a coalition (Eyskens I) between Christian-democrats and liberals.

1950

During his periods in office, Eyskens was confronted with major ideological and linguistic conflicts within Belgium including the Royal Question in 1950, the School War in 1958, the independence of the Belgian Congo in 1960 and the split of the University of Leuven in 1970.

His cabinet fell in June 1950 over the constitutional crisis caused by King Leopold III's actions during the Second World War.

In the short lived government of Jean Duvieusart (June–August 1950) Eyskens was Minister of Economic Affairs.

1958

Between 26 June 1958 and 6 November 1958, Eyskens led a minority government which was the most recent government of Belgium (Eyskens II) not to be a coalition government.

1960

On 6 November, Eyskens formed a coalition government with the liberals (Eyskens III) which remained in power until 3 September 1960.

On 3 September 1960 he formed his third government (Eyskens IV), again a coalition with the liberal party.

1961

This government fell on 25 April 1961 over the Unitary Law (which raised the fiscal pressure by 7 billion Belgian francs, cut spending in education and the military, and reformed unemployment benefits and government pensions) and had caused large-scale strikes.

During these years he also had to deal with the School War and the independence of the Belgian Congo.

1965

In the general election of 1965 Eyskens was elected to the Belgian Senate (re-elected in 1968 and 1971).

In the government led by Pierre Harmel (1965–1966) he again served as Minister of Finance.

1968

Student unrest and questions of discrimination against the ethnic Flemish population brought down the Belgian government in February 1968.

On 17 June 1968, Gaston Eyskens formed his fifth government (Eyskens V); this time a centre-left coalition between the Christian Democrats and the Socialists.

1970

He oversaw the first steps towards the federalization of Belgium (constitutional reform of 1970).

1973

On 20 January 1973, he formed his sixth and last government (Eyskens VI), again a coalition with the Socialists.

His last two governments were plagued by linguistic troubles regarding the split of the old bilingual Catholic University of Leuven into a Dutch-language university (the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), which stayed in Leuven and a French-language university which moved to Louvain-la-Neuve and became the Université catholique de Louvain and the start of the process of changing Belgium from a unitary state into a federation with the creation of the Communities.

Upon the fall of his last government Gaston Eyskens retired from politics.

He died in Leuven.

1981

His son Mark also became Prime Minister, serving from 6 April 1981 to 17 December 1981.

Eyskens studied at the Catholic University of Leuven where he gained a master and doctorate degree.