Paul M. G. Lévy

For other uses, see Paul Lévy (disambiguation).

Paul Michel Gabriel Lévy (27 November 1910 – 16 August 2002) was a Belgian journalist, publicist, and academic statistician.

Beginning his career in radio broadcasting, he refused to collaborate with the German authorities in World War II and was imprisoned as a political prisoner at Fort Breendonk between 1940 and 1942. He managed to escape to the United Kingdom with his family soon after his relief and worked in the entourage of the Belgian government in exile. Lévy converted to Catholicism in July 1940 and would be strongly influenced by Christian democratic ideals and would later be elected as the sole deputy for the abortive Belgian Democratic Union in 1946.

Lévy was engaged as head of the information and press section at the Council of Europe in 1949 and would later claim to have first envisaged the idea for the flag of Europe in 1955. He later taught statistics at univerisities in France and Belgium.

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