Charles Michel

Charles Yves Jean Ghislaine Michel (born December 21, 1975) is a Belgian lawyer and politician of the Mouvement réformateur. He was the President of the European Council from 2019 to 2024. From October 11, 2014 through October 27, 2019, he was the Prime Minister of Belgium.

Career

Michel studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Amsterdam. He successively worked as a lawyer in Brussels. He held several political posts like government minister of Development Cooperation and an alderman and mayor of Wavre. When he became the Prime Minister of Belgium in 2014, Michel was the youngest Belgian Prime Minister in 173 years since Jean-Baptiste Nothomb in 1841, and was only the second Francophone liberal to become Prime Minister.

Presidency of European Council

On July 2, 2019, the President of the European Council Donald Tusk announced a deal reached by EU Leaders which would make Michel his replacement and took office on December 1, 2019.Europese knoop ontward: Charles Michel wordt voorzitter van de Europese Raad In January 2024, he announced he would resign as president of the European Council to run in the 2024 election, before reversing his decision within the same month, saying he would finish his current term.

Family

Former European Commissioner Louis Michel is his father.

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