“Professionals were a walking statue, girls in the auditorium were curious creatures”: the student days in Leuven of ex-prime minister Mark Eyskens (91)

2025 has kicked off, and in Leuven that immediately means reason to celebrate. Exactly six hundred years ago this year, KU Leuven was baptized with the issuance of a papal bull. Former Prime Minister Mark Eyskens (91) also likes to pay tribute to his alma mater for the occasion. Here he looks back once again on his student days and his youth in the university city. “Suddenly my father said: ‘Look, there is one of the greatest scientists in the world’.”

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