“Ethics has to be accepted by the people, especially by those who are enthusiast to attend sports manifestations and the millions of them participating in it. It means transparency regarding the sometimes immense amounts paid to organize games, to hire players, to keep and build the infrastructure, etc. Trust and confidence in the correctness of the application of social and financial criteria, even if specific to the exercise of this type of activity, where mass information ( media, especially T.V. ) and advertisement, are the mean elements of making it sustainable, needs to be transparent. The law acting mechanisms in a representative democracy means that citizen, whose parliament has been free elected, feel that their will, on a democratic way, has been full filed. Any social business, health, entertainment, taxations, or contributions to wellbeing and welfare will be decided on an open and transparent way.”
Hon. Prof. Herman De Croo was first elected to Parliament in March 1968, and is Minister of State Mayor of Brakel. A former Professor of Common Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, he was President of the Chamber of Representatives, the lower house of the Federal Parliament (1999 – 2007), and served as ministers of Transport and Foreign Trade; Transport, Postal Services, Telegraphy and Telephony; and Education. Prof. De Croo obtained a doctorate in law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), and received a Fulbright scholarship to attend the University of Chicago Law School.