Van Rompuy

It would be unfair to blame Mr. Van Rompuy for all this, as many seem to be doing now.

If the commission and Mr Van Rompuy fail to press these points, they will be dancing around the heart of the matter.

The European Union President Herman van Rompuy said the programme would be financed by the EU, the IMF and the private sector.

EU President Van Rompuy said the purpose of international sanctions against Iran is to bring it back to the negotiating table.

"Even if we in June will not take definitive decisions, " Van Rompuy said, "the path and trajectory are very clear for everybody. "

As long as globalisation was seen mainly as economic, Europeans felt as if everyone could win from it, argued Mr Van Rompuy.

He congratulated Ashton and Van Rompuy and said a Tory government would work with them "in the British national interest" .

President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy said the doomsayers are wrong.

As EU chief, Mr. Van Rompuy said he would remain discrete.

Is Mr Van Rompuy a man of ambition, keen to push national governments towards deeper EU integration?

with separate summits that would be chaired, like euro-zone summits, by Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council.

He said it should meet twice yearly and be led by European President Herman Van Rompuy.

Van Rompuy labeled China as "a major trading partner" and "a strategic partner in global governance" .

Van Rompuy also warned investors not to expect any hard decisions to be made at the European Union summit meeting next week.

Mr Van Rompuy often finds himself working with its ideas, and national leaders often end up endorsing its plans.

EU leaders have chosen the Belgian Prime Minister, Herman van Rompuy, to be the first permanent European Council President.

Mr Van Rompuy will officially take office from January 1, while Lady Ashton is expected to be confirmed by the European parliament.

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy noted that Africa has great potential, but the issue of poverty must be addressed.

Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy is a low-key politician with a reputation for conciliation.

Before the summit, Van Rompuy met with Belgium's King Albert to discuss the possible selection of his successor as premier.

Belgium's parliamentary speaker, Herman van Rompuy, was asked to form a government after the collapse of the coalition led by Yves Leterme.

Mr Van Rompuy nevertheless welcomed the latest purchases of bonds from the eurozone periphery as a valuable gesture of support.

EU President Herman Van Rompuy on Tuesday cast the Irish crisis as a moment of existential gravity.

Herman Van Rompuy, Belgium's prime minister, was elevated to the lofty position of permanent president of the European Council.

European Council President Herman van Rompuy hailed the agreement during a press briefing after the meeting.

Mr Van Rompuy, who writes haiku, gave a press conference in fluent Dutch, French and English, promising to listen to all EU members.

Herman Van Rompuy, EU president, said after the summit that the test results would be published in the second half of July.

The European Union permanent President Herman Van Rompuy announced the breakthrough at a press conference.

Van Rompuy has already shown a talent as a consensus builder when it comes to Belgium's fractious politics.

LAST night Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council, addressed a packed audience in New York.

Mr. Van Rompuy is said to be against Turkish membership.

Van Rompuy was strongly supported by France and Germany, and has a reputation as a builder of coalitions.

Prime ministers no longer host summits: Herman Van Rompuy presides instead.

Instead, they should choose some harmless, plodding nonentity like Belgium's prime minister, Herman van Rompuy.

"We created a solid firewall and better fire-brigade equipment, " said Herman Van Rompuy, the European Union president.

Proposals from Van Rompuy aimed at installing a new regime without renegotiating EU treaties were roundly rejected by Berlin.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and her senior colleagues have prime responsibility, but "President" van Rompuy has been invisible.

His maverick sister, Christine Van Rompuy, is a member of the Maoist Workers Party of Belgium.

Mr Van Rompuy may get some of the credit, but the commission would win greater power.

European Council President Herman Van Rompuy says the pact to enforce greater budget discipline will be finalized in March.

The choice of Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as European Union president has drawn mixed reaction.

The calm demeanour of Mr Trichet and Mr Van Rompuy is not shared by the markets.

As their representative, Mr Van Rompuy has much to gain.

"We regret the loss of lives during the Israeli military operation against the flotilla sailing to Gaza, " Mr. Van Rompuy added.

Yet most measures being considered by Mr Van Rompuy were proposed by the commission.

President van Rompuy is up for re-election next June.

His younger brother, Eric Van Rompuy, and his son, Peter, are also Chritsian Democrat politicians.

This two-tier structure will become a regular event, under proposals by Mr Van Rompuy.

The council is stronger, but Mr Van Rompuy must rely on the commission's big bureaucracy to get much done.

Van Rompuy, 62, is a technocrat with a penchant for haiku poetry.

But on several key points proposed by Van Rompuy, the Germans flatly said no.

In addition, Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council will pay a visit to China.

Privately, Mr Van Rompuy's instincts may be more Germanic than French.

Let's hope Mr Van Rompuy's UN speech today offers something different.

The current president is Herman Van Rompuy of Belgium.

If Belgium could lower its debt, Mr Van Rompuy says, so can Greece.

Why not join forces with Mr Van Rompuy to take on those EU leaders?

But Mr Van Rompuy faces several conundrums.

There is therefore no point in comparing Mr Van Rompuy to Barack Obama, the US president.

On May 17, 2011, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met with visiting European Council President Herman Van Rompuy in Ziguangge, Zhongnanhai.

Thus, Mr Van Rompuy's statement looks absurd.

Yet he may be deprived of his crown by, for example, Herman Van Rompuy, prime minister of Belgium.

It is being left to Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, to find a compromise and avert a breakdown.

Mr Van Rompuy is married with four children.

Or else, what? asked journalists. "They WILL make commitments, " replied Mr Van Rompuy, curtly.

Yet they miss two points. The first is that the Van Rompuy-Ashton team was manifestly nobody's dream ticket.

But that wasn't even Van Rompuy's best line.

Globalisation is entering a political phase, says Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, and the European Union is ready

Confidential paper from council president Herman Van Rompuy proposes empowering the commission to impose austerity

Opening speech at the European Business Summit by President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy