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Jun 27, 1943 Ypres, Flemish Region, Belgium Died on 17 Dec 2016 (aged 73)
Belgian politician
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About Eric Defoort
- Eric Defoort (27 June 1943 in Ypres – 16 or 17 December 2016).
- was a Flemish Belgian politician and president of the European Free Alliance. Between 2007 and 2009, Defoort was the president of the Flemish Popular Movement (Vlaamse Volksbeweging - VVB), a non-party linked movement advocating Flemish autonomy.
- In 1982 he became the chief librarian and a professor of history at the Catholic University of Brussels. At the EFA-General Assembly in Venice, March 2010, he was elected the new President of the European Free Alliance.
- As historian he studied in depth the history of nationalism and published on topics like identity. Defoort was a member of the Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA), a party that became a full member of EFA in 2010.
- They supported his candidacy. As president, he saw to the organisation and strategy of the European Free Alliance.
