European Union leaders elected Herman Van Rompuy to a second, 2-1/2-year term as president of the European Council on Thursday, a vote of confidence in the former Belgian prime minister's handling of ...

Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union’s permanent president, said on Tuesday that the European Union was in a “survival crisis” and that its members must work together to get through the current ...

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy gestures while speaking during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, March 1, 2012. European leaders meet for a two-day summit aimed ...

Elected as the first full-time President of the European Council in November 2009, Herman Van Rompuy took office when the Lisbon Treaty came into force on 1 December 2009. In 2012, he was re-elected ...

THE Flemish newspaper De Morgen asked me to write them an op-ed on Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian (and Flemish) politician who just organised his first summit as President of the European Council. It ...

BRUSSELSBRUSSELS — Little known Belgian. Gets EU’s highest office. Publishes poems. EU President Herman Van Rompuy, known to some as Haiku Herman, will publish a book of poetry next month. The former ...

"A quiet consensus-builder." "Soft-spoken." "Little known" outside Belgium. Judging from these descriptions in news reports, the EU's first full-time president, Belgian Prime Minister Herman van ...

The European Union's president, Herman Van Rompuy, has condemned the rise of extremist movements and populism as a threat to the free movement of people across the 27-nation bloc. Van Rompuy, in a ...

I HAVE a guest opinion piece in the Flemish newspaper, De Standaard, this weekend. They asked me to offer a British view of Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian prime minister who is reportedly a ...

MADRID — Europe will be unable to afford its extensive social programs without economic change, the European Union’s new permanent president, Herman Van Rompuy, warned Friday, supporting calls for ...

BRUSSELS (AP) – Two and a half years ago, when European Union leaders were choosing the first president of the European Council, they faced a choice: Would they choose their leader or their clerk?