Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers

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Person.png Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician)
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BornBraine-l'Alleud
2 July 1907
Braine-l'Alleud
Died17 May 1991 (Age 83)
Ophain-Bois-Seigneur-Isaac
NationalityBelgium
ChildrenBernard Snoy et d'Oppuers
Member ofBilderberg/Steering committee
President of the European League for Economic Cooperation, Bilderberg Steering Committee

Jean Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers was a Belgian economist who played an important role in post-WW2 economic developments, including internationally. For example, he was involved in the implementation of the Marshall plan.

Background

He studied Law and Thomistic philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven.

Career

After having worked for three years in the private sector, Jean-Charles Snoy in 1934 entered the service of the Ministry of Industry, the Middle Classes and Foreign Trade, newly created to deal with the economic crisis. In 1939, at 32, he was promoted to Secretary General of Economic Treaties and Negotiations.

During the Second World War, he first followed (in May 1940) the Belgian government in exile to the south of France, then, on instructions from the government, returned to Belgium in July 1940. In August 1940, he was removed from office by the German military occupation regime.

He joined, like many young Catholic intellectuals at the initiative of Henri Bauchau, the Service des volontaires du travail pour la Wallonie (SVTW). From the start, with the support from the Royal Palace and several officers and officer cadets, this right-wing - but not collaborationist - movement was marked by a strong attachment to the fatherland and to the monarchy; it was driven by the desire to "create a service allowing the youth to raise the country from its ruins and avoid sinking into idleness".

He would later form, with other senior officials dismissed like him, a group responsible for gathering economic and financial information for the Belgian government in exile in London, for the preparation of the post-war period. Upon the liberation of Brussels by the Allied troops in September 1944, he resumed his duties as Secretary General of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, a post he held until the end of 1959.

He played an important role in post-WW2 economic developments, including internationally. For example, he was involved in the implementation of the Marshall plan.

He was Secretary-General of the Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Head of the Belgian Delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference on the Common Market and Euratom at the Château of Val-Duchesse in 1956. He signed the Treaties of Rome for Belgium, together with Paul-Henri Spaak and Robert Rothschild in 1957. From 1982 until 1984, he was President of the European League for Economic Cooperation. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group.[1]

 

Events Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bilderberg/196028 May 196029 May 1960Switzerland
Bürgenstock
The 9th such meeting and the first one in Switzerland. 61 participants + 4 "in attendance". The meeting report contains a press statement, 4 sentences long.
Bilderberg/196121 April 196123 April 1961Canada
Quebec
St-Castin
The 10th Bilderberg, the first in Canada and the 2nd outside Europe.
Bilderberg/196218 May 196220 May 1962Sweden
Saltsjöbaden
The 11th Bilderberg meeting and the first one in Sweden.
Bilderberg/196329 March 196331 March 1963France
Cannes
Hotel Martinez
The 12th Bilderberg meeting and the second one in France.
Bilderberg/196420 March 196422 March 1964US
Virginia
Williamsburg
A year after this meeting, the post of GATT/Director-General was set up, and given Eric Wyndham White, who attended the '64 meeting. Several subsequent holders have been Bilderberg insiders, only 2 are not known to have attended the group.
Bilderberg/19652 April 19654 April 1965Italy
Villa d'Este
The 14th Bilderberg meeting, held in Italy
Bilderberg/196625 March 196627 March 1966Germany
Wiesbaden
Hotel Nassauer Hof
Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg in Wiesbaden, Germany, was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment.
Bilderberg/196731 March 19672 April 1967United Kingdom
St John's College (Cambridge)
UK
Possibly the only Bilderberg meeting held in a university college rather than a hotel (St. John's College, Cambridge)
Bilderberg/196826 April 196828 April 1968Canada
Mont Tremblant
The 17th Bilderberg and the 2nd in Canada
Bilderberg/197221 April 197223 April 1972Belgium
Hotel La Reserve
Knokke
The 21st Bilderberg, 102 guests. It spawned the Trilateral Commission.
Bilderberg/197311 May 197313 May 1973Sweden
Saltsjöbaden
The meeting at which the 1973 oil crisis appears to have been planned.
Bilderberg/197419 April 197421 April 1974France
Hotel Mont d' Arbois
Megève
The 23rd Bilderberg, held in France
Bilderberg/197525 April 197527 April 1975Turkey
Golden Dolphin Hotel
Cesme
The 24th Bilderberg Meeting, 98 guests
Bilderberg/197722 April 197724 April 1977United Kingdom
Imperial Hotel
Torquay
The 25th Bilderberg, held in Torquay, England.
Bilderberg/197821 April 197823 April 1978US
New Jersey
Princeton University
The 26th Bilderberg, held in the US
Bilderberg/198018 April 198020 April 1980Germany
Aachen
The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mirror
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