Trivia

He was a member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party.

Tindemans was elected to the European Parliament with a record number of votes (983.000 votes, which is still a record for any election in Belgium) and was a member of that parliament from 1979 to 1981 (during which time he also was chairman of the CVP).

Tindemans was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in 1961 and re-elected in 1965, 1968, 1971, 1974, 1977 and 1978.

Leo Tindemans was a Belgian politician.

With the European elections in 1989 Tindemans went back to the European Parliament where he served two terms until he retired in 1999. During 1994-1995 he was chairman of the Tindemans group.

He became in Belgium Minister of State by Royal Decree.

Tindemans received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1978.

He was awarded the Charlemagne Prize 1976.

He served as the prime minister of Belgium serving from 25 April 1974 until he resigned as minister on 20 October 1978.

In the 1970s he was a regular Le Cercle participant (Johannes Grossmann, Die Internationale der Konservativen, München 2014, p. 473). He participated in at least one Bilderberg Conference in Aachen in 1980. He appears on the provisional list of participants for the 1967 Bilderberg Conference which means that he was invited and accepted the invitation. He either cancelled in the last minute or was omitted from the official list of participants.

In 1976, during the founding Congress of the European People's Party in Brussels, he was elected first President of the new party, a role which gave him the important tasks of harmonising and finding consensus between the different leaders and member parties of the EPP and of leading the party during the first direct elections to the European Parliament in 1979.

Tindemans received The Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Crown.

From 1965 to 1973 Tindemans also served as the mayor of Edegem.

He was awarded with The Grand Cross in the Order of Merit of the Austrian Republic.

In 1968 Tindemans became minister tasked with the relations between the communities (1968-1972) during which he prepared the first constitutional reform which saw Belgium start transforming into a federal state.