Karel De Gucht

Karel De Gucht
Born	1954-01-27  Overmere,  Belgium
Nationality	Belgian
Alma mater	Free University of Brussels
Criminal charge	insider trading
Children	•  Frédéric De Gucht •  Jean-Jacques De Gucht
Spouse	Mireille Schreurs
Member of	Atlantik-Brücke, Freemasonry/Grand Orient of Belgium
Interests	Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Party	Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats
Belgian EU-politician and 3 time Bilderberger. As European Commissioner prepared negotiations with the United States for the secretive supranational Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which would "provide an economic equivalent to Nato" and settle the rules of world trade.  European Commissioner for Trade  In office 9 February 2010 - 1 November 2014 Preceded by Benita Ferrero-Waldner Succeeded by Cecilia Malmström  European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid  In office 17 July 2009 - 9 February 2010  Belgium/Minister/Foreign Affairs  In office 18 July 2004 - 17 July 2009  Member of the European Parliament In office 1980 - 1994 Succeeded by Dominique Baudis, Luigi Caligaris, Efthimios Christodoulou, Marie-France Garaud, Wilfred Martens, Antoinette Spaak, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Helene Carrere d'Encausse

Karel Lodewijk Georgette Emmerence De Gucht is Belgian EU-politician and a 3 time Bilderberger. As European Commissioner he prepared and launched free trade negotiations with the United States, the secretive supranational Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which according to the US ambassador to the EU would "provide an economic equivalent to Nato" that would settle "the rules of world trade before others do it for us".

Education

De Gucht is the son of a farmer from Overmere. He graduated from the Royal Athenaeum of Aalst (province of East Flanders) in 1971, then his law degree at the Free University of Brussels in 1976.

Career

He quickly became politically involved, in parallel with a career as a lawyer. He was a member of the European Parliament from 1980 to 1994, of the Belgian Senate from 1994 to 1995, and of the Flemish Community Parliament from 1995 to 2003. He was elected to the Belgian House of Representatives in the 2003 parliamentary elections and became Minister of Foreign Affairs on 18 July 2004, first under Head of Government Guy Verhofstadt and since 2008 under Yves Leterme and Herman Van Rompuy. With the change to the EU Commission, he has given up the post of Foreign Minister. His successor was Yves Leterme.

In July 2009 De Gucht was appointed as the Belgian European Commissioner, where he became Commissioner for Development, then Commissioner for Trade 2010-2014.

Supranational policies

As European Commissioner he prepared and launched free trade negotiations with the United States, the supranational Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which according to the US ambassador to the EU would "provide an economic equivalent to Nato" that would settle "the rules of world trade before others do it for us".

In October 2014 he concluded CETA, a free trade agreement with Canada. The Canadian agreement would establish a Investment Court System (ICS), special jurisdiction to be used by multinational companies to challenge health and environmental legislation unfavorable to their interests.

He also played a key role in the conclusion of an Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine, which played a direct part in the 2014 color revolution.

In 2025 he supported the creation of a European military bloc to "become a serious player"

Family

He is the father of Frédéric De Gucht, a commercial engineer and politician from Brussels and Jean-Jacques De Gucht, a Flemish MP and senator.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2010	3 June 2010	6 June 2010	Spain Hotel Dolce Sitges Barcelona	The 122 guests met in the Hotel Dolce Sitges, Barcelona, Spain.
Bilderberg/2012	31 May 2012	3 June 2012	US Virginia Chantilly	The 58th Bilderberg, in Chantilly, Virginia. Unusually just 4 years after an earlier Bilderberg meeting there.
Bilderberg/2015	11 June 2015	14 June 2015	Austria Telfs-Buchen	The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria
Brussels Forum/2007	2007	2007	Belgium Brussels	2007 get-together of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2008	2008	2008	Belgium Brussels	The 2008 get-together of a lot of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2009	20 March 2009	22 March 2009	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2010	26 March 2010	28 March 2010	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2011	25 March 2011	27 March 2011	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2012	23 March 2012	24 March 2012	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2014	21 March 2014	24 March 2014	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The theme in 2014 was A World in Transition
Convention on the Future of Europe	28 February 2002	18 July 2003		Attempt to create constitution for a United States of Europe. Handpicked participants dominated by Bilderbergers.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2009	23 January 2009	27 January 2009	Switzerland WEF	Chairman Klaus Schwab outlined five objectives driving the Forum’s efforts to shape the global agenda, including letting the banks that caused the 2008 economic crisis keep writing the rules, the climate change agenda, over-national government structures, taking control over businesses with the stakeholder agenda, and a "new charter for the global economic order".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2014	22 January 2014	25 January 2014	Switzerland WEF	2603 guests in Davos considered "Reshaping The World"

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