Take a look behind the scenes of the EU presidency and follow some of the Flemish teammembers on Twitter.
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Bianka Nagy is the Flemish Authorities EU presidency coordinator at the Department of Culture, Youth, Sport and Media of the Flemish authorities. Prior to this, she worked as a Communication Executive at a Brussels-based European plastics industry association.
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Mieke Barbé completed her degree as an Events Manager in 2009. She is now part of the Belgian EU presidency project team in the Department of Culture, Youth, Sport and Media of the Flemish authorities. Her main task consists of the practical organisation of the Flemish conferences on Culture and Media.
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Anne Brackx started as a communication assistant for the EU presidency at the Department of Welfare, Public Health and Family of the Flemish authorities in May 2010. She has a Bachelor in Communication and work experience in journalism, HR and marketing. Anne worked as a PR and Marketing manager for an international company in the UAE from 2003 to 2007.
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Kristien Verbraeken has been working as a communication advisor at the Departments for the General Government Policy of the Flemish authorities since 2002. During the Belgian EU presidency, Kristien helps organise EuroPCom, the first European conference on public communication. She is also project manager of the EuroPCom conference and community website.@europcomnet
Eva Van Buggenhout, Willem De Moor, Steven Schelfhout and Karolien Waegeman will twitter together on behalf of the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI) at the Flemish authorities. As policy or communication specialists, they are actively involved in the preparations of the conferences organised by EWI. With these events, EWI wants to break a lance for a sustainable society, the role of SMEs, innovation, European research space and the EU2020 strategy – all high on the Flemish list of priorities. This way, Flanders wants to leave its mark on the EU presidency.
Kristof Geutjens works as fisheries attaché at the Flemish Representation within the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU. Since fisheries is the only regionalised competence that has been assigned exclusively to one region, he is also the Belgian attaché. During the Presidency Kristof is the Chair of the Council working party on internal and external fisheries policy, which meets on a weekly basis.