The June 2009 elections are a success for Pascal Smet and the sp.a of Brussels, but they are nevertheless excluded from the majority coalition of the Brussels-Capital Region. That’s how the sp.a ends up in the Brussels opposition and how Pascal Smet becomes Minister for Education, Youth, Equal Opportunities and Brussels Affairs in the Flemish government. Thanks to these competences, he is actually Minister of the future.
In 2014, Pascal Smet fully dedicates himself to Brussels again and becomes Minister in the Brussels Government. ‘Courage is to seek the ideal and to understand the real,’ Pascal Smet quotes Jean Jaurès, the famous leader of the French Socialist Party. After five years as Flemish Minister for Education, Pascal Smet has absolutely no regrets about returning to Brussels. He returns with more experience to make Brussels a better, more welcoming city.
As Minister of Mobility and Public Works, he gives shape to his dream of introducing sustainable urban development. That includes, among others, a reorganisation of public space. In other words, more space for public transport, cyclists and pedestrians.
Today, Pascal Smet is State Secretary of the Brussels-Capital Region for Urbanism and Heritage, European and International Relations, Foreign Trade and Firefighting and Emergency medical Assistance.With these competences, he wants to make Brussels dashing and put it on the international map as the cosmopolitan, creative and dynamic city it is.
Pascal Smet
State Secretary of the Capital Region of Brussels, Vice-President of Europe Metropolis
Pascal Smet is State Secretary of the Brussels-Capital Region, responsible for Urbanism and Heritage, European and International Relations, Foreign Trade and Firefighting and Emergency medical Assistance.
After the elections of June 2004, Pascal Smet becomes Minister of Mobility and Public Works in the government of Brussels. With these responsibilities, he manages to make a difference and proves that his ideas can be realised. Public works are now planned in a better way and are part of a broad urban vision. Brussels must become more car-free and cyclists should have a visible place. It goes without saying that Pascal wants to work towards fast and attractive public transport along dedicated corridors and at favourable rates for certain target groups.