Dehaene’s candidacy, supported by France and Germany, came undone because of opposition from just one of the 12 members of the union at the time.
Delors, a French Socialist, had raised the profile of the position, helping to establish a regional market and a regional currency. By the next year he was being viewed as a likely successor to the president of the European Union’s executive commission, Jacques Delors, whose term was coming to an end. In 1993, he helped push through major revisions to the Belgian Constitution that further stabilized the government. Dehaene, who had been communications minister, formed a center-left coalition that preserved a measure of peace among Dutch speakers in the north and French speakers in the south. Dehaene, a member of the Flemish Christian Democratic Party, became prime minister in March 1992 after leaders of the country’s major political factions spent 103 tense days trying to form a working government. He died after a fall while on vacation, Belgian officials told news outlets. Jean-Luc Dehaene, a former prime minister of Belgium whose deft political deal-making helped hold together his country’s historically divided factions and for a time made him a leading contender to become the European Union’s top official, died on Thursday in Brittany, France.
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