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On the occasion of Student Day, deBuren is organising a political job fair in collaboration with Vacature. Job fairs are gaining in importance as a way of bringing employers and students closer together. These days, even the government is compelled to organise job fairs for vacancies that fail to attract a sufficient number of applicants. Political parties are sounding the same alarm bell: too few young people seem to be responding to the call of politics.

Prominent Flemish, Dutch and European politicians are invited to share their experiences with Flemish and Dutch students in Brussels, some of them participants in the Erasmus programme. The students will have the opportunity to get first-hand information about political careers. Diplomatic staff and personnel of European institutions will come and talk about which choices led them to take up a political and/or European career. Only students will be admitted to the job fair. They can book a 10-minute talk with the guests, such as the ministers Inge Vervotte, Bert Anciaux, Geert Bourgeois, Yves Leterme, Kris Peeters or Pascal Smet, on which other students can listen in.

Guests:

Ministers:

Bert Anciaux: Flemish Minister for Culture, Youth, Sport and Brussels Affairs
Dirk Van Mechelen: Flemish Minister for Finance and Budget and Town and Country Planning
Geert Bourgeois: Flemish Minister for Administrative Affairs, Foreign Policy, Media and Tourism
Inge Vervotte: Flemish Minister for Welfare, Public Health and Family
Jos Chabert: First vice-president of the Brussels Parliament
Kathleen van Brempt: Flemish Minister for Mobility, Social Economy and Equal Opportunities
Kris Peeters: Flemish Minister for Public Works, Energy, the Environment and Nature
Pascal Smet: Minister of Mobility and Public Works of the Brussels Capital Regional Government
Yves Leterme: Minister-president of the Flemish Government and Flemish Minister for Institutional Reform, Agriculture, Sea Fisheries and Rural Policy

(European) Parliamentarians:

Annemie Neyts: European Parliamentarian
Bart Staes: European Parliamentarian
Philip Claeys: European Parliamentarian
Sven Gatz: Member of the Flemish and Brussels Parliament

Belgian Minister of State:

Jos Geysels

Diplomats:

Pieter Jan Langenberg: Consul General for the Netherlands, Antwerp
Jos Draijer: Permanent Representative of the Netherlands at the EU

Political Councellors:

Joeri Hamvas: Counsellor European parliamentarian Edith Mastenbroek
Toon Wassenberg: Counsellor minister Kathleen Van Brempt

Journalists:

Annemarie Gualthérie van Weezel: NOS News (NL)
Barbara Blomme: Belga
Bart Dirks: de Volkskrant (NL)
Bouke Bergsma: ANP News (NL)
Piet Piryns: Knack Magazine
Rob Heirbout: VRT News