Published January 08, 2015
Former Belgian prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, who helped setting up the European Union's constitution and led his nation during the 1990s when it granted increasing autonomy to its Dutch and French-speaking regions, has died. He was 73.
Current Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo said Thursday that Belgium "loses an exceptional stateman. Jean-Luc was a special companion."
Dehaene, a Dutch-speaking Christian Democrat, had been diagnosed with cancer earlier this year but died following a fall in France, media reports said.
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