title: Sander Loones
text: # Sander Loones
  
  Sander Loones (born 26 January 1979 in Veurne) is a Belgian politician who was the Belgian Minister of Defence from 12 November 2018 to 8 December 2018. From 2014 to 2018, he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA) - the Belgian delegation to the European Conservatives and Reformists Group. He was Vice Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs from 8 January 2015. On 12 November 2018, he succeeded Steven Vandeput as Minister of Defence.
  
  