*** JEAN POORTERMAN: Les impromptus d'un témoin. De la rue de la Loi au quartier Schuman. FDM éditions (34 rue Van Schoor, B-1030 Brussels. Tel: (32-2) 2423350). 2003, 415 p..
Many people in the European microcosm of Brussels and Belgian political circles remember him. But Jean Poorterman has never been widely known, and never will be, despite having been one of the workers in the shadow who devote their entire lives to public service, to the noblest and grandest aspects that politics has...