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16-681: Albert Henry may refer to: Albert Henry (historian) (1910–2002), Belgian historian Albert Henry (politician) (1907–1981), first Premier of the Cook Islands Albert Henry (rugby union) , rugby union player who represented Australia Albert Henry (cricketer) (c. 1880–1909), Aboriginal Australian cricketer Al Henry (born 1949), Albert Henry, basketball player Al B. Henry (1911–1989), American politician See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Albert Henry [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

32-488: A German camp for prisoners of war, known as an Oflag or a Stalag . During his captivity, he wrote clandestinely Offrande wallonne about the contributions of the Romance regions of Belgium to French civilization. In the last chapter, Henry described the possibility of a division of Belgium. His vision of Wallonia was distinguished by the primacy he accorded to the common language of the inhabitants of "Romance Belgium," that

48-739: A barrister at the Court of Appeal in Liège. His commitment to the Walloon Movement drew him into politics. He joined the Liberal Party and was elected city councillor of Liège in 1935. In 1939, he won a seat in the Belgian Chamber of Representatives . In the wake of World War II, he was one of the most vocal opponents of the "policy of independence" (neutrality) supported by successive Belgian governments and King Leopold III . He

64-510: A bill on the organisation of a federal state. If passed, the new Constitution would have transformed Belgium into a Confederation consisting of two States , Flanders and Wallonia , and the federal region of Brussels . However, a majority in the Belgian Parliament refused to take the proposal into consideration. Rey was Minister of Reconstruction from 1949 until 1950, and Minister of Economy from 1954 until 1958. As such, he

80-760: Is French, in Wallonia and in Brussels. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium , a professor at Ghent University from 1946 to 1958, and then a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles from 1958 to 1976. He was elected a foreign member ("socio straniero") of the Accademia dei Lincei . In 1976, he cosigned the Lettre au Roi pour un vrai fédéralisme (Letter to

96-546: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Albert Henry (historian) A Romance philologist at the Université libre de Bruxelles and a graduate of the École pratique des hautes études at the Paris Sorbonne, Albert Henry studied literature in the second half of the twentieth century. His work is marked by an attachment to Wallonia and his friendship with

112-737: The Kennedy Round (1964–1967). In 1967, he succeeded Walter Hallstein as President of the European Commission (he was the first President of the Commission of the merged CSCE, CEE and EAEC). Still a convinced federalist, he undertook to reinforce the Community institutions. He won increased powers for the European Parliament and advocated its election by universal suffrage. During his presidency, he oversaw

128-710: The Community, in addition to a share of the VAT revenue. From 1964 until 1974, Rey was chairman of the board of the College of Europe in Bruges . He presided the over European Movement from 1974 to 1978 and was member of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe . In 1979, he became member of the first European Parliament elected by universal suffrage . Jean Rey also remained active in Belgian politics. He became

144-724: The European Union today. It was also at The Hague that France gave up its resistance against the accession of the United Kingdom to the EEC. Finally, in 1970, the last year of this mandate, Rey won the European governments' support for his proposal to give the Community "own resources". This meant that the EEC no longer depended exclusively on contributions by the member states, but could complete these with revenues from customs duties, levies on agricultural products from outside

160-628: The King for a true federalism) with Marcel Thiry , Fernand Dehousse , and Jean Rey . Among his many works, one of the most famous was his Histoire des mots "Wallon" et "Wallonie" (History of Walloon words and Wallonia), reprinted several times, notably and for the last time at the Institut Destrée in 1990. This biographical article about a Belgian historian is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jean Rey (politician) Jean Rey (15 July 1902 – 19 May 1983)

176-535: The completion of the customs union (1968). He also played an important role the Summit of The Hague in 1969, where the European leaders decided to relaunch European integration with two new initiatives: on the one hand, Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union (EMU), and on the other hand, European Political Cooperation (EPC), which foreshadow the euro and the Common Foreign and Security Policy of

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192-479: The poet Saint-John Perse , of whose poetic work he organized the critical edition. A medievalist, he edited numerous Romance literary works, including those of François Villon . In 1938, he was conscripted as a reserve officer in the artillery. He participated in the Fortified position of Namur and was taken as a prisoner of war on 28 May 1940, at the time of the surrender ordered by Leopold III . He remained in

208-405: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Albert_Henry&oldid=803027412 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

224-536: Was a Belgian Liberal politician who served as the second president of the European Commission from 1967 to 1970. He served as European Commissioner for External Relations from 1958 to 1967. The 1983–1984 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour. Born in Liège into a Protestant family, Jean Rey studied law at the University of Liège , where he obtained a PhD in 1926. He began his career as

240-678: Was involved both in the early development of the European Coal and Steel Community and in the negotiations that led to the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC). Member of the commission ( Hallstein Commission ) of the CEE from 1958 until 1967, responsible for external relations, he played an important role in the negotiations of

256-634: Was mobilised as a reserve officer in 1940 and served during the Battle of Belgium . He was captured by the Germans and spent the rest of the conflict as a prisoner of war, being interned in Oflag XD near Fischbeck , where he was member of the clandestine Masonic Lodge L'Obstinée . After the war, he became an advocate of the federalisation of Belgium . As early as 1947 he promoted, together with five other members of Parliament (among whom Julien Lahaut ),

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