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Marianne Thyssen (CD & V), appointed by the Federal Government to join the European Commission in 2014, announced Thursday that she will leave active political life at the end of her term in the European executive.
First Belgian woman to obtain a commissioner's post, she has, since taking office, won an agreement on the reform of the Posted Labor Directive, but also worked on the establishment of a European Pillar of Rights. social.
Born in 1956, Marianne Thyssen worked for the employers' organization NCMW (the ancestor of Unizo), of which she was briefly secretary-general. In this position, she hired the young Kris Peeters as tax adviser.
From 1991, she was elected to the European Parliament, where she sat continuously until 2014. She was elected for the fifth time on May 25, 2014 , with 340,026 votes of preference, preceded only on this front by Guy Verhofstadt
In the 1990s, she sits on the Committee of Economic, Monetary and Industrial Affairs (ECON) of the badembly. Between 2004 and 2009, she is active in the Internal Market Committee, where she participates in negotiations on the Services Directive. The controversial proposal of Commissioner Frits Bolkestein is then largely amended by the Parliament, through a compromise that Mrs Thyssen considers as "a milestone in the completion of the internal market".
In 2008, it finds itself in the spotlight of the Belgian national scene, when Kris Peeters and Yves Leterme ask him to take the direction of the CD & V, then still the biggest party of Flanders. On May 15, she was formally elected with 96% of the votes.
She knows difficult moments in this post, including the successive resignations of Prime Minister Yves Leterme and ministers CD & V Inge Vervotte and Jo Vandeurzen, following of the Fortis case.
In 2010, she agreed to lead the CD & V troops in the legislative elections, after Yves Leterme and his government again resigned, this time on the issue of the judicial district and the electoral district of Brussels-Halle-Vilvorde (BHV). Leading the list in the Senate, it can not prevent a defeat in elections. Ten days later, she resigns from the presidency, where Wouter Beke succeeds her.
After the 2009 elections, Marianne Thyssen rejoins the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. In the wake of the financial crisis, it must deal with an unprecedented volume of legislative projects intended to repair a framework that had proved its inadequacy. Marianne Thyssen plays a leading role in negotiations on the banking union
Re-elected in May 2014, she had to sit again on the ECON committee, but the parties decided otherwise. She finally joined the team of Jean-Claude Juncker, where she won the portfolio of Employment and Social Affairs.
During her term as Commissioner, Marianne Thyssen has won a "balanced" agreement between the states members on the delicate reform of the posted work directive. In October 2017, a large majority of EU ministers voted behind its proposal to ensure that posted workers were entitled to the same salary package as local employees.
She also worked on setting up a European Pillar of Social Rights, which aims to give citizens new and more effective rights. Based on 20 principles, this "pillar" of social rights guides the reforms in this area.
In this context, Mrs. Thyssen has among other things tabled proposals to review the European rules on parental leave to ensure that all European fathers 10 days of paternity leave and prevent these holidays from being mainly taken by mothers.
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