Gérard Deprez

Gérard M.J. Deprez (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁaʁ dəpʁe]; born 13 August 1943 in Noville, Bastogne) is a Belgian politician.

He was a Member of the European Parliament representing the French Community of Belgium for six terms from 1984 to 2009 and again from 2014 until 2019.

He worked as an assistant lecturer at the Catholic University of Louvain from 1966 to 1974 and did his doctorate at the same time.

Subsequently, he went into politics, serving as adviser in the office of the Minister for French Culture for one year.

[2] He immediately forged an alliance of his new party with the PRL and the regionalist Democratic Front of the Francophones (FDF), which became the Reformist Movement (MR) in 2002 and of which Deprez has since been a vice-chairman.