Herman Van Rompuy

...Jean-Claude Juncker, Toomas Ilves, the Estonian president, and Vaira Vike-Freiberga, the former Latvian president, the only female candidate touted. None, it has been noted, are from France or Germany, the traditional motors of the EU.

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...of Turkey in Europe. Van Rompuy's antipathy to Turkey earned him support yesterday for the EU job from the Vlaams Belang, or Flemish Interest, party on the extreme anti-immigrant right wing in Flanders. But news of a Franco-German...

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...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 candidate for President of the Council by Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor...

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...relations. Mr Van Rompuy was nominated for the top job by Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who is the last EU leader to hold the rotating post before it becomes a permanent fixture for Brussels. He was the choice of...

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...Germany over the decision. Reinhard Bettzuege, German ambassador in Brussels, let slip yesterday that Chancellor Angela Merkel is backing the Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy for the presidency. Mrs Merkel is said not to be a...

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