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Jean-Luc Dehaene, a Belgian who is one of the convention's two vice-presidents, has proposed a European foreign minister.
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Another possibility is that Jean-Luc Dehaene, prime minister of Belgium, who faces an election in June, might be pressed into service.
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The coalition government of Jean-Luc Dehaene survived a no-confidence motion in parliament.
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His two deputies Giuliano Amato, a former Italian prime minister, and Jean-Luc Dehaene, a former prime minister of Belgium, are also both keen federalists.
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However former Belgian prime minister Jean-Luc Dehaene, who now sits as an MEP, said the domestic crisis meant that the acting Belgian government could give it's "full attention" to the presidency.
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