Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union

• Equal opportunities: ministerial supervision of the Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism and the Institute for Equality between Women and Men; responsible for the Incentive Fund for Immigrant Policy and Intercultural Dialogue
• Supervision of:
  • Fund for Occupational Accidents (FAT)
  • National Annual Holiday Office (ONVA)
  • National Employment Office (ONEM)
  • Auxiliary Unemployment Benefit Payment Fund (CAPAC)

• Joint supervision with Minister for Social Affairs of:
  • Occupational Disease Fund (FMP)
  • National Social Security Office (ONSS)
  • Crossroads Bank for Social Security (BCSS)

• Joint supervision with the Minister for Social Affairs and the Minister for Pensions of:
  • Service for Overseas Social Security (Ossom)
  • Joint supervision with the Minister for Social Affairs, the Minister for Pensions and the Minister for the Interior of:
  • Social Security Office of Local and Provincial Institutions (ONSS-APL)
• Family policy (remit for family benefits for workers who come under the Ministry of Social Affairs and remit for family benefits for the self-employed who come under the Ministry for the Self-Employed)
• Federal Public Service Interior (DG Aliens Office)
• Supervision of:
  • Aliens Office
  • Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons
  • Aliens Litigation Council

• Supervision of Fedasil is the responsibility of the Minister for Social Integration and the Secretary of State for Social Integration, in liaison with the Minister for Immigration and Asylum Policy and the Secretary of State for Immigration and Asylum Policy

Political career

• Joëlle Milquet became a senator in 1995 and then chairwoman of the Committee for the Interior
• In 1997, she became vice-president of the party
• She was federal deputy for Brussels from June 1999 to March 2008
• President of the party since October 1999
• First deputy mayor (currently “detained”) in charge of the Registry Office, Culture and Employment/Training for Brussels. Joëlle Milquet has been Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Employment and Equal Opportunities since 20 March 2008
• She took charge of immigration and asylum policy on 17 July 2009

Professional career

With a law degree behind her, Joëlle Milquet was admitted to the Brussels bar while working as a teaching assistant at the Catholic University of Louvain. Following a period as a law clerk at the Court of Justice of the European Communities, she rejoined the parliamentary group in the Senate as parliamentary attaché, later becoming councillor, then principle private secretary at the Ministry for Higher Education and political secretary of the party.

• Classics (Institute of the Ladies of St. André in Charleroi)
• Law degree (Catholic University of Louvain)
• Post Graduate in European Law (University of Amsterdam)