Herman Van Rompuy and the Presidents of the five coalition parties of the outgoing Belgian Government have struck a agreed on a new Government on 29 December. Here is the list of the Cabinet:
Ministers:
• Herman Van Rompuy (CD&V), Prime Minister;
• Didier Reynders (MR), Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Institutional Reforms;
• Laurette Onkelinx (PS), Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health;
• Karel De Gucht (Open Vld), Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs;
• Steven Vanackere (CD&V), Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Civil Servants, Public Enterprises and Institutional Reforms;
• Joëlle Milquet (cdH), Vice-Prime Minister and Minister for Employment and Equal Rights Opportunities;
• Stefaan De Clerck (CD&V), Minister for Justice;
• Sabine Laruelle (MR), Minister for SME’s, Independents, Agriculture and Scientific Policy;
• Marie Arena (PS), Minister for Social Integration, Pensions and Large Cities;
• Pieter De Crem (CD&V), Minister for Defense;
• Paul Magnette (PS), Minister for Climate and Energy ;
• Charles Michel (MR), Minister for Development Cooperation;
• Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open Vld), Minister for the Enterprise and Simplification;
• Annemie Turtelboom (Open Vld), Minister for Migration and Asylum Policy;
• Guido De Padt (Open Vld), Interior Minister;
Secretaries of State:
• Etienne Schouppe (CD&V), Secretary of State for Mobility, Deputy to the Prime Minister;
• Carl Devlies (CD&V), Secretary of State for anti-fraud Coordination, Deputy to the Prime Minister, and Secretary of State, Deputy to the Justice Minister;
• Bernard Clerfayt (MR), Secretary of State for the Modernization of the Public Federal Finances Services, Environmental Tax Regime and anti fiscal fraud, Deputy to the Finance Minister;
• Olivier Chastel (MR), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in charge of the preparation of the European Presidency, Deputy to the Minister of Foreign Affairs;
• Julie Fernandez-Fernandez (PS), Secretary of State for Handicapped Persons, Deputy to the Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health;
• Melchior Wathlet (cdH), Secretary of State for the Budget, Deputy to the Prime Minister, Secretary of State for Family Policy, Deputy to the Labour Minister and the Justice Minister;
• Jean-Marc Delizée (PS), Secretary of State for the Fight against Poverty, Deputy to the Minister for Social Integration, Pensions and large Cities.
