Herman Van Rompuy

...position in her life. As for the new "President of Europe", the Belgian prime minister Herman Van Rompuy, he was hardly better known until he emerged as a front-runner a few weeks ago. The phrase "a pair of nonentities" is on many...

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...who composes Japanese haiku poetry, is regarded as something of an enigma. During one of his country's episodic constitutional and political crises, he emerged from an emergency meeting with Belgium's King Albert II to make a typically gnomic...

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New EU President's Life Motto Is 'Quiet Determination' By Jeroen van der Kris in Brussels Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy. Herman Van Rompuy is a practicing Catholic who belongs to the conservative wing of the Flemish Christian...

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...in the Japanese-style 17-syllable verses known as haiku, written in Flemish, has also made him famous as the poet prime minister. Two of his poems have been translated and published in the Wall Street Journal. Sources...

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgians on Friday mixed pride with trepidation over Herman Van Rompuy's appointment as the first president of the European Union because of the risk of instability after his exit as prime minister. Van Rompuy has led...

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...himself so we had to do it all for him." The end of Mr Blair's presidential bid was major boost for Mr Van Rompuy. Before the dinner, his other main rival for the presidency, Jan Peter Balkenende, the Dutch Prime Minister, pulled out of...

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The lowest common denominator would win. But this has surpassed my cynicism. The main message is that Van Rompuy and Ashton are irrelevant, they're more suited to local government roles and that's by design: power is staying in Paris and...

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...knocked, he was reluctant to step into the limelight as national premier and it took Belgium's monarch 90 minutes to persuade him. Mr Van Rompuy remained almost completely unknown outside Belgium's frontiers until he was anointed as a...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton of Upholland given Europe's grandest jobs Philip Webster and David Charter in Brussels A Belgian federalist and a former chairman of...

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...out against Turkish EU membership because, he warned, it would dilute Europe's Christian heritage. His position on the issue is so strong that he has won the support of Vlaams Belang, the controversial far-right Flemishh anti-immigrant...

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