Europe : I struggle, I overcome / / Wilfried Martens ; foreword by Angela Merkel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777912203321
• Autore: Martens Wilfried
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; London : , : Center for European Studies, , 2008; ©2008
• ISBN: 3-540-89289-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 276 pages) : illustrations (some color)
• Disciplina: 949.3043092
• Soggetti: Statesmen - Belgium; Ex-prime ministers - Belgium; Belgium Politics and government 1951-1993
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Looking Back on My Life -- Conviction and Responsibility -- In Charge of a Restless State -- Small Country, Large Responsibilities -- My Road Towards Maastricht -- “O Hellenic Shore Where Our Fathers Dwell …” -- The Fall of Santer -- A Cordon Sanitaire Around Austria -- “He Did Not Take the Fruit of Those Who Had Planted the Tree …” -- Pushing Forward in Europe and Beyond.
• Sommario/riassunto: Wilfried Martens - Europe: I Struggle, I Overcome Foreword by Angela Merkel Wilfried Martens has devoted his entire life to politics: as student leader, youth activist, President of the Flemish Christian Democrats, Prime Minister of Belgium, President of the European People's Party and European statesman. In his autobiography Martens offers the inside story on running a complex country like Belgium, fighting for European integration and unification, and transforming the European People's Party into a strong, united centre-right movement and leading European political family. Above all, this is book about the intricacies of European politics and its guiding ideas, values and principles. The processing of the manuscript was concluded in 2008.