[2] His father, son of a Jewish immigrant from Poland who fled anti-Semitism, was arrested by the Gestapo as a member of the Belgian Resistance during World War II.
Modrikamen went to school at Couillet and then Charleroi before going to Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) where he studied Law and graduated magna cum laude.
After a year as trainee with the top American firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, he then moved to Stibbe where he finished his pupilage.
In 1999, Modrikamen has won the largest award ever granted in Belgium which led to a 3 billion euros payment in favour of cooperative shareholders of two merging banks (KBC-CERA merger case).
In 2001, Mischaël Modrikamen represented the Belgian Jewish Community in the negotiation with the banking and insurance sector for looted assets during World War II, securing a 110 million euros settlement.
Modrikamen sued RTL Belgium for libel before the commercial court of Brussels and obtained 1 euro in damages by judicial decision of 24 December 2013.
In November 2002, Mischaël Modrikamen was a vocal critic of Islamism seeing it as a threat to democracy and the west seeing the situation as equivalent to appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s.
[5][6] Without substantial funding and with limited access to the media, especially TV debates preceding the elections, the People's Party nevertheless obtained more than 4% of the vote in Brussels and Wallonia and its first Member of Parliament.
After the elections, the King consulted Mischaël Modrikamen, along with all the other party leaders, as part of the standard process of assessing the political situation.
[11] At the end of 2010, he had made public that he would launch a new daily online newspaper with a bimonthly printed version under the name Le Peuple.
Modrikamen claimed that this was in order to keep a maximum of ministerial posts for itself but the very small representation of his party in parliament made its participation improbable in any case.
Early 2015, The Parti Populaire formed the Alliance For Direct Democracy in Europe (ADDE) with the UKIP, VNL, Debout la Republique, the Swedish Democrats and various other individual MPs.
He called for a strong policy in order to avoid millions of unqualified migrants crossing the Mediterranean sea, taking into account the terrorist threat and the very high unemployment rate in Europe.
Modrikamen strongly opposes President Junker's proposal to ease migration restrictions and qualifies them, like Nigel Farage of UKIP, as "one of the most serious threats to our civilisation".
He made a dire description of the true situation of Belgium and Brussels, with the consequences of Muslim immigrations, Islamic fundamentalism, violence and the rise of anti-Semitism.
He accused Moureaux of getting a large part of his votes with mosques’ support, and financing Wahhabi and Salafist cultural centers in Molenbeek with public money.
[22] A month before the US election, Modrikamen released a second video supporting Donald Trump and criticizing Hillary Clinton as "very European, weak and globalist, obsessed by multiculturalism".
[24] Modrikamen has declared in various interviews that after Brexit and the election of Trump, the populist movement would become global and that also in Europe time has arrived to give a voice back to ordinary people.
[25] In January 2017, Modrikamen first registered The Movement group to rally European nationalists, which in 2018 was relaunched with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon as an anti-EU influence.
Further issues developed during the year with disagreements between Bannon, Modrikamen and Raheem Kassam about their involvement with various populist and right-wing groups and figures such as Brothers of Italy, Filip DeWinter and Geert Wilders.
He brought his support to Israel and particularly the Israeli-occupied West Bank where he was welcomed with his delegation by the head of the Shomron Regional Council and then at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament.
We renew the commitments and promises of past generations of integrity in advancing a free society based on the rule of law, protecting life, liberty and private property.
We are committed to the shared values and timeless principles that strengthen the rule of law, civil society and free enterprise, and, build strong national defenses that protect our citizens.
However, in 2018, the European Court of Justice rejected the appeal, and additionally required the Institute for Direct Democracy in Europe (IDDE) to pay Parliament's legal costs.
[34] At the November 2016, Congress of its People's Party, Modrikamen did not hesitate to brandish a broom[35] to clean up the mess of Belgian politics, in an image evoking Governor Schwarzenegger's bid in the California elections of 2003.
In the last Manifesto that he wrote for his party,[37] Modrikamen calls for protectionist measures in order to restore an efficient industry in Belgium and Western Europe against unfair China imports.
Wallonia was, at the end of the nineteenth century, one of the major economic centers in the world due to its coal, river network, and railways, as well as an efficient labor force and entrepreneurship.
However, its over-reliance on mining and heavy industry and lack of diversification became apparent once other European nations rebuilt after World War One, and particularly in the 1950s, as coal declined.