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id="toc-Member_of_the_Belgian_Chamber_of_Representatives_(1995–2009)" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Member_of_the_Belgian_Chamber_of_Representatives_(1995–2009)"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (1995–2009)</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Member_of_the_Belgian_Chamber_of_Representatives_(1995–2009)-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Position_on_Turkish_accession_to_the_European_Union" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Position_on_Turkish_accession_to_the_European_Union"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3.1</span> <span>Position on Turkish accession to the European Union</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Position_on_Turkish_accession_to_the_European_Union-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li 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class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">Herman Van Rompuy</span></h1> <div id="p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown mw-portlet mw-portlet-lang" > <input type="checkbox" id="p-lang-btn-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-p-lang-btn" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox mw-interlanguage-selector" aria-label="Go to an article in another language. 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class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Romp%C3%B6y" title="Herman Van Rompöy – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Herman Van Rompöy" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%A8_%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%87" title="হেরম্যান ভন রম্পুই – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="হেরম্যান ভন রম্পুই" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%91%D0%B9" title="Херман ван Рампёй – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Херман ван Рампёй" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B9" title="Херман Ван Ромпой – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Херман Ван Ромпой" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A7%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%BC%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CE%B2%CE%B1%CE%BD_%CE%A1%CE%BF%CE%BC%CF%80%CE%AD%CE%B9" title="Χέρμαν βαν Ρομπέι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Χέρμαν βαν Ρομπέι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eml mw-list-item"><a href="https://eml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Emiliano-Romagnolo" lang="egl" hreflang="egl" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Emiliàn e rumagnòl" data-language-local-name="Emiliano-Romagnolo" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Emiliàn e rumagnòl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85%D9%BE%D9%88%DB%8C" title="هرمن ون رومپوی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="هرمن ون رومپوی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_van_Rompuy" title="Herman van Rompuy – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Herman van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%97%A4%EB%A5%B4%EB%A7%8C_%EB%B0%98_%EB%A1%AC%ED%91%80%EC%9D%B4" title="헤르만 반 롬푀이 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="헤르만 반 롬푀이" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%8E%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D5%8C%D5%B8%D5%B4%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%B5" title="Հերման Վան Ռոմպեյ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Հերման Վան Ռոմպեյ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_van_Rompuy" title="Herman van Rompuy – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Herman van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingue</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%9F_%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%99" title="הרמן ואן רומפיי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="הרמן ואן רומפיי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%B0%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%95%E1%83%90%E1%83%9C_%E1%83%A0%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%98" title="ჰერმან ვან რომპეი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ჰერმან ვან რომპეი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermannus_Van_Rompuy" title="Hermannus Van Rompuy – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Hermannus Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermans_Van_Rompejs" title="Hermans Van Rompejs – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Hermans Van Rompejs" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malagasy</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%89" title="هيرمان فان رومبوى – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="هيرمان فان رومبوى" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%98%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%91%E3%82%A6" title="ヘルマン・ファン・ロンパウ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ヘルマン・ファン・ロンパウ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%85%D9%BE%D9%88%DB%90" title="هرمان ون رومپوې – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="هرمان ون رومپوې" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%91%D0%B9,_%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD" title="Ван Ромпёй, Херман – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Ван Ромпёй, Херман" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%BE%DB%8E%D8%B1%D9%85%DB%95%D9%86_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%DA%95%DB%86%D9%85%D9%BE%D9%88%DB%8C" title="ھێرمەن ڤان ڕۆمپوی – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ھێرمەن ڤان ڕۆمپوی" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%98" title="Херман ван Ромпој – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Херман ван Ромпој" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_van_Rompuy" title="Herman van Rompuy – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Herman van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D3%A9%D0%B9" title="Һерман ван Ромпөй – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Һерман ван Ромпөй" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B9" title="Герман ван Ромпей – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Герман ван Ромпей" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Van_Rompuy" title="Herman Van Rompuy – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Herman Van Rompuy" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%B3%E9%B3%97%C2%B7%E8%8C%83%E9%BE%99%E4%BD%A9" title="河鳗·范龙佩 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="河鳗·范龙佩" 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data-mw-ve-target-container> <div class="vector-body-before-content"> <div class="mw-indicators"> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Former Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Van Rompuy" redirects here. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Van_Rompuy_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect" title="Van Rompuy (disambiguation)">Van Rompuy (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">In this <a href="/wiki/Dutch_name" title="Dutch name">Dutch name</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Surname" title="Surname">surname</a> is <i> Van Rompuy</i>, not <i> Rompuy</i>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media 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href="/wiki/File:Herman_Van_Rompuy_675.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Herman_Van_Rompuy_675.jpg/220px-Herman_Van_Rompuy_675.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="284" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Herman_Van_Rompuy_675.jpg/330px-Herman_Van_Rompuy_675.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Herman_Van_Rompuy_675.jpg/440px-Herman_Van_Rompuy_675.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1132" data-file-height="1463" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Official portrait, 2012</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Council" title="President of the European Council">President of the European Council</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1 December 2009 – 30 November 2014</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fredrik_Reinfeldt" title="Fredrik Reinfeldt">Fredrik Reinfeldt</a> <small>(non-permanent)</small></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Tusk" title="Donald Tusk">Donald Tusk</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Belgium" title="Prime Minister of Belgium">Prime Minister of Belgium</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />30 December 2008 – 25 November 2009</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Monarch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Albert_II_of_Belgium" title="Albert II of Belgium">Albert II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Deputy</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Didier_Reynders" title="Didier Reynders">Didier Reynders</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Yves_Leterme" title="Yves Leterme">Yves Leterme</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Yves Leterme</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Belgian_Chamber_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Presidents of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives">President of the Chamber of Representatives</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />12 July 2007 – 30 December 2008</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Herman_De_Croo" title="Herman De Croo">Herman De Croo</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Dewael" title="Patrick Dewael">Patrick Dewael</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Budget_(Belgium)" title="Minister of Budget (Belgium)">Minister of the Budget</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />5 September 1993 – 12 July 1999</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Dehaene" title="Jean-Luc Dehaene">Jean-Luc Dehaene</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mieke_Offeciers" title="Mieke Offeciers">Mieke Offeciers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Johan_Vande_Lanotte" title="Johan Vande Lanotte">Johan Vande Lanotte</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Chamber_of_Representatives_(Belgium)" title="Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)">Member of the Chamber of Representatives</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />21 May 1995 – 1 December 2009</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Etterbeek" title="Etterbeek">Etterbeek</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Senate_(Belgium)" title="Senate (Belgium)">Senator</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />15 June 1988 – 21 May 1995</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Constituency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Etterbeek" title="Etterbeek">Etterbeek</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Herman Achille Van Rompuy</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1947-10-31</span>) </span>31 October 1947<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 77)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Etterbeek" title="Etterbeek">Etterbeek</a>, Belgium</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_and_Flemish" title="Christian Democratic and Flemish">Christian Democratic and Flemish</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/European_People%27s_Party" title="European People's Party">European People's Party</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Geertrui Windels</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul ul{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist .mw-empty-li{display:none}.mw-parser-output .hlist dt::after{content:": "}.mw-parser-output .hlist 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li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Van_Rompuy" title="Peter Van Rompuy">Peter</a></li><li>Laura</li><li>Elke</li><li>Thomas</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Residence(s)</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Sint-Genesius-Rode" title="Sint-Genesius-Rode">Sint-Genesius-Rode</a>, Belgium</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Katholieke_Universiteit_Leuven" class="mw-redirect" title="Katholieke Universiteit Leuven">Catholic University of Leuven</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Herman_Van_Rompuy_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Herman Van Rompuy's signature"><img alt="Herman Van Rompuy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Herman_Van_Rompuy_signature.svg/128px-Herman_Van_Rompuy_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="128" height="66" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Herman_Van_Rompuy_signature.svg/192px-Herman_Van_Rompuy_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Herman_Van_Rompuy_signature.svg/256px-Herman_Van_Rompuy_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="446" data-file-height="230" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Herman Achille, Count Van Rompuy</b><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Dutch:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="nl-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Dutch" title="Help:IPA/Dutch">[ˈɦɛrmɑɱ<span class="wrap"> </span>vɑn<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈrɔmpœy]</a></span> <span class="noprint"><span class="ext-phonos"><span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt 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class="oo-ui-indicatorElement-indicator oo-ui-indicatorElement-noIndicator"></span></a></span><sup class="ext-phonos-attribution noexcerpt navigation-not-searchable"><a href="/wiki/File:Pronunciation-Herman_Van_Rompuy.ogg" title="File:Pronunciation-Herman Van Rompuy.ogg">ⓘ</a></sup></span></span>; born 31 October 1947) is a Belgian politician who served as <a href="/wiki/Prime_minister_of_Belgium" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime minister of Belgium">prime minister of Belgium</a> from 2008 to 2009, and then as the first permanent <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Council" title="President of the European Council">president of the European Council</a> from 2009 to 2014. </p><p>A politician from Belgium's <a href="/wiki/Christen-Democratisch_en_Vlaams" class="mw-redirect" title="Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams">Christian Democratic and Flemish party</a>, Van Rompuy served as the <a href="/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Belgium" title="List of prime ministers of Belgium">49th prime minister of Belgium</a> from 30 December 2008 until <a href="/wiki/Yves_Leterme" title="Yves Leterme">Yves Leterme</a> (who was also his predecessor) succeeded him on 25 November 2009. On 19 November 2009,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Van Rompuy was selected by the members of the <a href="/wiki/European_Council" title="European Council">European Council</a>, which is the <a href="/wiki/Institutions_of_the_European_Union" title="Institutions of the European Union">institution</a> of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> (EU) comprising the <a href="/wiki/Heads_of_state" class="mw-redirect" title="Heads of state">heads of state</a> or <a href="/wiki/Head_of_government" title="Head of government">government</a> of the <a href="/wiki/EU_member_states" class="mw-redirect" title="EU member states">EU member states</a>, as the first full-time President of that Council under the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Lisbon" title="Treaty of Lisbon">Treaty of Lisbon</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was appointed for the period 1 December 2009 until 31 May 2012,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though he only took up his position officially on 1 January 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 1 March 2012, he was re-elected for a second (and last) term, to last from 1 June 2012 until 30 November 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was appointed chairman of the board of the <a href="/wiki/College_of_Europe" title="College of Europe">College of Europe</a> in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-coleurop_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coleurop-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life,_career_and_family"><span id="Early_life.2C_career_and_family"></span>Early life, career and family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life, career and family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Etterbeek" title="Etterbeek">Etterbeek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brussels" title="Brussels">Brussels</a>, to Dr. Victor Lodewijk Maurits "Vic" van Rompuy (<a href="/wiki/Begijnendijk" title="Begijnendijk">Begijnendijk</a>, 27 February 1923 – Begijnendijk, 14 November 2004), later <a href="/wiki/Professor" title="Professor">Professor</a> of <a href="/wiki/Economics" title="Economics">Economics</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and wife Germaine Geens (Begijnendijk, 1 December 1921 – Begijnendijk, 23 November 2004),<sup id="cite_ref-tvanrompuy_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvanrompuy-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he attended Sint-Jan Berchmanscollege in Brussels (until 1965), where <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek" title="Ancient Greek">Ancient Greek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> were his main subjects. During his early teens, he was an avid <a href="/wiki/Rock_and_roll" title="Rock and roll">rock and roll</a> fan, especially of US singer <a href="/wiki/Elvis_Presley" title="Elvis Presley">Elvis Presley</a>. Later, he studied at the <span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl"><a href="/wiki/Katholieke_Universiteit_Leuven" class="mw-redirect" title="Katholieke Universiteit Leuven">Katholieke Universiteit Leuven</a></i></span> and received a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">bachelor's degree</a> in <a href="/wiki/Philosophy" title="Philosophy">Philosophy</a> (1968), and a <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">master's degree</a> in <a href="/wiki/Applied_Economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Applied Economics">Applied Economics</a> (1971).<sup id="cite_ref-councilbio_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-councilbio-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked at the Belgian <a href="/wiki/Central_Bank" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Bank">Central Bank</a> from 1972 to 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1980 to 1987, he was a <a href="/wiki/Lecturer" title="Lecturer">Lecturer</a> at the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Handelshogeschool_Antwerpen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Handelshogeschool Antwerpen (page does not exist)">Handelshogeschool Antwerpen</a> (now <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lessius_University_College&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lessius University College (page does not exist)">Lessius University College</a>); from 1982, he was also a lecturer at the <a href="/wiki/Hogeschool-Universiteit_Brussel" title="Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel">Vlaamse Economische Hogeschool Brussel</a> (VLEKHO later <a href="/wiki/Hogeschool-Universiteit_Brussel" title="Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel">Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel</a>; now <a href="/wiki/Katholieke_Universiteit_Leuven" class="mw-redirect" title="Katholieke Universiteit Leuven">University of Leuven</a> Brussels campus).<sup id="cite_ref-councilbio_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-councilbio-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family">Family</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Van Rompuy is married to Geertrui Windels, with whom he has four children: Peter (born 1980), Laura (born 1981), Elke (born 1983), and Thomas (born 1986). His eldest son, Peter, is active in the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_and_Flemish" title="Christian Democratic and Flemish">Christian Democratic and Flemish</a> (CD&V) party and stood as a candidate in the <a href="/wiki/2009_Belgian_regional_elections" title="2009 Belgian regional elections">Belgian regional elections of 2009</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His younger brother, <a href="/wiki/Eric_Van_Rompuy" title="Eric Van Rompuy">Eric Van Rompuy</a>, is also a politician in the CD&V and was a minister in the <a href="/wiki/Flemish_Government" title="Flemish Government">Flemish Government</a> from 1995 to 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His sister, Tine Van Rompuy, is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Workers_Party_of_Belgium" class="mw-redirect" title="Workers Party of Belgium">Workers Party of Belgium</a>. He has another sister, Anita Van Rompuy, who is not politically active, married to Arne van der Graesen.<sup id="cite_ref-tvanrompuy_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tvanrompuy-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_career">Early career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Early career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Van Rompuy was the chairman of the national <a href="/wiki/Christian_Democratic_and_Flemish" title="Christian Democratic and Flemish">Christian People's Party</a>'s (CVP) youth council (1973–1977). From 1975 to 1980, he worked in the ministerial cabinets of <a href="/wiki/Leo_Tindemans" title="Leo Tindemans">Leo Tindemans</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gaston_Geens" title="Gaston Geens">Gaston Geens</a>. In 1978 he was elected a member of the national CVP's bureau (1978–present). He first was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Belgian_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Belgian Senate">Belgian Senate</a> in 1988, and served until 1995. In 1988 he briefly served as Secretary of State for Finance and Small and Medium Enterprises before becoming the national chairman of the CVP (1988–1993).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Belgian_Minister_of_Budget_(1993–1999)"><span id="Belgian_Minister_of_Budget_.281993.E2.80.931999.29"></span>Belgian Minister of Budget (1993–1999)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Belgian Minister of Budget (1993–1999)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Van Rompuy was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Budget from September 1993 to July 1999, in the two governments led by <a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Dehaene" title="Jean-Luc Dehaene">Jean-Luc Dehaene</a>. As budget minister, together with finance minister <a href="/wiki/Philippe_Maystadt" title="Philippe Maystadt">Philippe Maystadt</a>, he helped drive down Belgium's debt from a peak of 135% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 1993. It fell to below 100% of GDP in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Member_of_the_Belgian_Chamber_of_Representatives_(1995–2009)"><span id="Member_of_the_Belgian_Chamber_of_Representatives_.281995.E2.80.932009.29"></span>Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (1995–2009)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (1995–2009)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was elected to the Belgian Chamber of Representatives in the <a href="/wiki/1995_Belgian_general_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1995 Belgian general election">1995 general election</a>, but as he remained a minister, he was barred from taking the seat while holding that office. After his party's defeat in the <a href="/wiki/1999_Belgian_general_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1999 Belgian general election">1999 Belgian general election</a>, he became a member of the <a href="/wiki/Belgian_Chamber_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="Belgian Chamber of Representatives">Chamber of Representatives</a>. He was re-elected in <a href="/wiki/2003_Belgian_federal_election" title="2003 Belgian federal election">2003</a> and <a href="/wiki/2007_Belgian_federal_election" title="2007 Belgian federal election">2007</a>. In 2004, he was designated <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_State_(Belgium)" title="Minister of State (Belgium)">Minister of State</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Position_on_Turkish_accession_to_the_European_Union">Position on Turkish accession to the European Union</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Position on Turkish accession to the European Union"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Accession_of_Turkey_to_the_European_Union" title="Accession of Turkey to the European Union">Accession of Turkey to the European Union</a></div> <p>Before he was President, Van Rompuy expressed reticence about possible Turkish membership of the EU. In 2004, he stated "An enlargement [of the EU] with Turkey is not in any way comparable with previous enlargement waves. Turkey is not Europe and will never be Europe." He continued "But it's a matter of fact that the universal values which are in force in Europe, and which are also the fundamental values of Christianity, will lose vigour with the entry of a large Islamic country such as Turkey."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As President, Van Rompuy has avoided opposing Turkish membership of the EU. On 23 December 2010, he said "Turkish reform efforts have delivered impressive results." He continued "Turkey plays an ever more active role in its neighbourhood. Turkey is also a full-standing member of the G-20, just like five EU countries and the EU itself. In my view, even before an outcome of the negotiations, the European Union should develop a close partnership with the Turkish Republic."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="President_of_the_Belgian_Chamber_of_Representatives_(2007–2008)"><span id="President_of_the_Belgian_Chamber_of_Representatives_.282007.E2.80.932008.29"></span>President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (2007–2008)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives (2007–2008)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2009</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>After eight years in opposition, CD&V (formerly known as CVP) returned to government. On 12 July 2007, <span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">Van Rompuy</i></span> was elected as the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Belgian_Chamber_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives">President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives</a>, succeeding <a href="/wiki/Herman_De_Croo" title="Herman De Croo">Herman De Croo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prime_Minister_of_Belgium">Prime Minister of Belgium</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Prime Minister of Belgium"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Van_Rompuy_Government" title="Van Rompuy Government">Van Rompuy Government</a></div> <p>On 28 December 2008, following the <a href="/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_Belgian_political_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="2007–2008 Belgian political crisis">2007–2008 Belgian political crisis</a>, Van Rompuy was asked by <a href="/wiki/Albert_II_of_Belgium" title="Albert II of Belgium">King Albert II</a> to form a new government<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after he was reluctant to take up the role of Prime Minister.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was sworn in as Belgian prime minister on 30 December 2008. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Taxes">Taxes</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Taxes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 13 October 2009, <a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_News" title="Bloomberg News">Bloomberg</a> reported that the government of Herman Van Rompuy would seek to tax banks and nuclear power to tame the deficit.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Quote_on_financial_recovery">Quote on financial recovery</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Quote on financial recovery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"We are in the early stages of a recovery and at this time it is important not to weaken burgeoning confidence and to lay the foundations of a sustainable recovery" Van Rompuy said in a speech to parliament in Brussels. "Most important is to keep the direction. That will also provide stability and support."<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg2_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg2-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Policy_on_government_debt">Policy on government debt</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Policy on government debt"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 13 October, Bloomberg reported the following about <span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">Van Rompuy's</i></span> Government Debt Policy: "Belgium will trim its budget deficit to 5.3% of gross domestic product in 2011 from almost 5.7% both this year and next, according to a slide presentation handed out by State Secretary for the Budget <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Melchior Wathelet</i></span>. <span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">Van Rompuy</i></span> told Parliament earlier today that the deficit would widen to 5.4% of GDP this year. Belgium's deficit will be little changed next year as the shortfall at the level of regional governments and municipalities will widen to 1.5% of GDP from 0.7%, offsetting efforts by the federal government to trim its deficit. Government debt will start exceeding one year's worth of national output as of 2010<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, according to European Commission forecasts. Belgium had trimmed debt to as little as 84% of GDP in 2007, before bailouts of Fortis, Dexia SA, KBC Group NV and mutual insurer Ethias Group increased the nation's borrowing costs and inflated the debt ratio to 89.6% at the end of last year."<sup id="cite_ref-bloomberg2_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bloomberg2-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Negotiations_and_dispute_with_GDF_Suez">Negotiations and dispute with GDF Suez</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Negotiations and dispute with GDF Suez"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 22 October 2009, <a href="/wiki/Reuters" title="Reuters">Reuters</a> reported that the <span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">Van Rompuy</i></span> government had signed a commitment with GDF Suez for nuclear power fees to Belgium. The outstanding dispute with GDF concerns the €250 million fee that Belgium is attempting to charge GDF for 2009 as part of its "Renewable Energy Fund" as stated in the article: "Belgium has also charged nuclear producers a total of 250 million euros for 2008, and the same for 2009, as well as 250 million euros this year payable to a renewable energy fund. These fees remain in dispute. The producers are challenging the 2008 payment in Belgium's constitutional court. A spokesman for <span title="Dutch-language text"><i lang="nl">Van Rompuy</i></span> said the government would pass a law to enforce the 500 million euro charge for this year, adding that this could also be contested by GDF Suez."<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="President_of_the_European_Council_(2009–2014)"><span id="President_of_the_European_Council_.282009.E2.80.932014.29"></span>President of the European Council (2009–2014)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: President of the European Council (2009–2014)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herman_Van_Rompuy_-_Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Durao_Barroso_(2010-05-18).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Herman_Van_Rompuy_-_Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Durao_Barroso_%282010-05-18%29.jpg/220px-Herman_Van_Rompuy_-_Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Durao_Barroso_%282010-05-18%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Herman_Van_Rompuy_-_Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Durao_Barroso_%282010-05-18%29.jpg/330px-Herman_Van_Rompuy_-_Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Durao_Barroso_%282010-05-18%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Herman_Van_Rompuy_-_Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Durao_Barroso_%282010-05-18%29.jpg/440px-Herman_Van_Rompuy_-_Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Durao_Barroso_%282010-05-18%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="484" data-file-height="484" /></a><figcaption>Van Rompuy in a joint press conference with <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso" title="José Manuel Barroso">José Manuel Barroso</a>, the <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Commission" title="President of the European Commission">President of the European Commission</a> in May 2010</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Summit_June_2010_(25)_(1).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Summit_June_2010_%2825%29_%281%29.jpg/220px-Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Summit_June_2010_%2825%29_%281%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Summit_June_2010_%2825%29_%281%29.jpg/330px-Flickr_-_europeanpeoplesparty_-_EPP_Summit_June_2010_%2825%29_%281%29.jpg 1.5x, 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Herman_Van_Rompuy%2C_Vladimir_Putin_and_Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso_4_June_2013_01.jpg/330px-Herman_Van_Rompuy%2C_Vladimir_Putin_and_Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso_4_June_2013_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Herman_Van_Rompuy%2C_Vladimir_Putin_and_Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso_4_June_2013_01.jpg/440px-Herman_Van_Rompuy%2C_Vladimir_Putin_and_Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso_4_June_2013_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="650" data-file-height="434" /></a><figcaption>Van Rompuy with Russian President <a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Putin" title="Vladimir Putin">Vladimir Putin</a> and President of the European Commission <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Barroso" title="José Manuel Barroso">José Manuel Barroso</a>, June 2013</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Angela_Merkel_(13564837823).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Angela_Merkel_%2813564837823%29.jpg/220px-Angela_Merkel_%2813564837823%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Angela_Merkel_%2813564837823%29.jpg/330px-Angela_Merkel_%2813564837823%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Angela_Merkel_%2813564837823%29.jpg/440px-Angela_Merkel_%2813564837823%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2464" data-file-height="1640" /></a><figcaption>Van Rompuy with German Chancellor <a href="/wiki/Angela_Merkel" title="Angela Merkel">Angela Merkel</a>, March 2014</figcaption></figure> <p>On 19 November 2009, Van Rompuy was chosen unanimously by the European Council, at an informal meeting in Brussels, to be the first full-time <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Council" title="President of the European Council">President of the European Council</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for the period of 1 December 2009 (the entry into force of the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Lisbon" title="Treaty of Lisbon">Treaty of Lisbon</a>) until 31 May 2012. He took up his position officially on 1 January 2010. </p> <p><a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a> also praised Van Rompuy as "a consensus-builder" who had "brought a period of political stability to his country after months of uncertainty".<sup id="cite_ref-consensus_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-consensus-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This opinion is shared by others; he has been described as the painstaking builder of impossible compromises (<i>l'horloger des compromis impossibles</i>)<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A statement made by Van Rompuy at a news conference after his selection illustrates his approach: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style></p><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Every country should emerge victorious from negotiations. A negotiation that ends with a defeated party is never a good negotiation. I will consider everyone's interests and sensitivities. Even if our unity remains our strength, our diversity remains our wealth." He has also described his role of chairing a body composed of 27 heads of state or government (and finding consensus among them) as being "neither a spectator, nor a dictator, but a facilitator</p></blockquote> <p>Given Van Rompuy’s support for Europe and opposition to far right, not all parties and factions had positive words for him when he took office. British MEP and Eurosceptic <a href="/wiki/Nigel_Farage" title="Nigel Farage">Nigel Farage</a> attacked the freshly appointed president by stating that he had "the charisma of a damp rag and the appearance of a low grade bank clerk."<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The remarks generated controversy and he was fined €3000 (ten days' pay) by the President (Speaker) of the European Parliament for his unparliamentary comments. </p><p>In a November 2009 press conference, Van Rompuy related to <a href="/wiki/Global_governance" title="Global governance">global governance</a> by stating: "2009 is also the first year of global governance with the establishment of the G20 in the middle of a financial crisis; the climate conference in Copenhagen is another step towards the global management of our planet."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Van Rompuy referred to the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference_2009" class="mw-redirect" title="United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009">United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:International_Conference_on_Afghanistan_(2010)_world_leaders.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/International_Conference_on_Afghanistan_%282010%29_world_leaders.jpg/300px-International_Conference_on_Afghanistan_%282010%29_world_leaders.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="206" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/International_Conference_on_Afghanistan_%282010%29_world_leaders.jpg/450px-International_Conference_on_Afghanistan_%282010%29_world_leaders.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/International_Conference_on_Afghanistan_%282010%29_world_leaders.jpg/600px-International_Conference_on_Afghanistan_%282010%29_world_leaders.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="1649" /></a><figcaption>World leaders host Hamid Karzai at the London Conference on Afghanistan, 28 January 2010</figcaption></figure> <p>On 28 January 2010, Van Rompuy attended the 2010 <a href="/wiki/International_Conference_on_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="International Conference on Afghanistan">International Conference on Afghanistan</a> at <a href="/wiki/Lancaster_House" title="Lancaster House">Lancaster House</a> in London. It was at this event that the framework for the next decade of the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan" title="Islamic Republic of Afghanistan">Islamic Republic of Afghanistan</a> was settled by the Afghan president <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a> and his successor <a href="/wiki/Ashraf_Ghani" title="Ashraf Ghani">Ashraf Ghani</a> and their donors. As seen at right, <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Ashton" title="Catherine Ashton">Catherine Ashton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Anders_Fogh_Rasmussen" title="Anders Fogh Rasmussen">Anders Fogh Rasmussen</a> amongst other Western leaders were in attendance.<sup id="cite_ref-finalcomm_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-finalcomm-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In or just before the first months of his presidency Van Rompuy visited all EU member states,<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he also organised an informal meeting of the heads of state of the EU. The meeting took place on 11 February 2010, in the <a href="/wiki/Leopold_Park" title="Leopold Park">Solvay Library</a> (Brussels), topics to be discussed were the future direction of the economic policies of the EU, the outcome of the <a href="/wiki/Copenhagen_Conference" class="mw-redirect" title="Copenhagen Conference">Copenhagen Conference</a> and the then recent <a href="/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake" title="2010 Haiti earthquake">earthquake in Haiti</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In fact, the meeting was in part taken over by the growing sovereign debt crisis (at that time, Greece), which was to become the hall mark of Van Rompuy's first two years as President. With EU member states holding divergent positions on this issue, he had to find compromises, not least between France and Germany, at subsequent European Council meetings and summits of Eurozone heads of state or government leading to the establishment of the three-year <a href="/wiki/European_Financial_Stability_Mechanism" class="mw-redirect" title="European Financial Stability Mechanism">European Financial Stability Mechanism</a> (EFSM) and the <a href="/wiki/European_Financial_Stability_Facility" title="European Financial Stability Facility">European Financial Stability Facility</a> (EFSF) in May 2010, to provide loans to Greece (and later Ireland and Portugal) to help stabilise their borrowing costs, but subject to strict conditions. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Van_Rompuy,_Obama,_Barroso_Nov_2011.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Van_Rompuy%2C_Obama%2C_Barroso_Nov_2011.png/220px-Van_Rompuy%2C_Obama%2C_Barroso_Nov_2011.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Van_Rompuy%2C_Obama%2C_Barroso_Nov_2011.png/330px-Van_Rompuy%2C_Obama%2C_Barroso_Nov_2011.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Van_Rompuy%2C_Obama%2C_Barroso_Nov_2011.png/440px-Van_Rompuy%2C_Obama%2C_Barroso_Nov_2011.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="420" /></a><figcaption>Van Rompuy with U.S. President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> and President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, November 2011</figcaption></figure> <p>The European Council also gave him the assignment of chairing a task force on economic governance, composed of personal representatives (mostly ministers of finance) of the heads of government, which reported ahead of schedule to the October 2010 European Council. Its report, which proposed stronger macro-economic co-ordination within the EU in general and the Eurozone in particular and also a tightening of the Stability and Growth Pact was endorsed by the European Council. The latter also charged him with preparing, by December 2010, a proposal for a limited change to the Treaty required to enable a more permanent financial stability mechanism. His draft – for an addition to Article 136 TFEU, pertaining to the Eurozone – was endorsed by the European Council at its October 2010 meeting. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dmitry_Medvedev_and_Herman_Van_Rompuy_in_Brussels_(2010-12-07).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Dmitry_Medvedev_and_Herman_Van_Rompuy_in_Brussels_%282010-12-07%29.jpg/220px-Dmitry_Medvedev_and_Herman_Van_Rompuy_in_Brussels_%282010-12-07%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Dmitry_Medvedev_and_Herman_Van_Rompuy_in_Brussels_%282010-12-07%29.jpg/330px-Dmitry_Medvedev_and_Herman_Van_Rompuy_in_Brussels_%282010-12-07%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Dmitry_Medvedev_and_Herman_Van_Rompuy_in_Brussels_%282010-12-07%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Van Rompuy with Russian President <a href="/wiki/Dmitry_Medvedev" title="Dmitry Medvedev">Dmitry Medvedev</a>, December 2010</figcaption></figure> <p>His second year in office, 2011, was also marked by a deterioration of the Greek debt crisis, leading to Van Rompuy calling an extraordinary meeting of the Eurozone heads of state or government in July to adopt a first package of further measures (notably longer term loans at lower interest rates, private sector debt-writedown, further fiscal consolidation in Greece) and again in October (in conjunction with full European Council meetings) to contain contagion from Greece to other countries (through bank recapitalisation across Europe and by leveraging the firepower of the EFSF to about €1 trillion). </p><p>His first two years were also marked by his role in co-ordinating European positions on the world stage at G8 and G20 summits and bilateral summits, such as the tense 5 October 2010, EU-China summit. He called a special European Council at short notice in early 2011, on the emerging Libya crisis, which, in agreeing conditions for military intervention, made it impossible for Germany to oppose such intervention once the conditions were fulfilled. </p><p>On 1 March 2012, Van Rompuy was re-elected unanimously as President of the European Council by the heads of state or government of the 28 EU member states. President Van Rompuy's second term lasted for two and a half years, from 1 June 2012 to 30 November 2014. After this second mandate he could not have been re-elected because the European Council President's term of office can only be extended once. </p><p>Van Rompuy was also appointed as the first President of the Euro Summit, and this for the same term of office as his Presidency of the European Council. The Euro Summit meetings are to take place at least twice a year. </p><p>In 2014, Van Rompuy was awarded the <a href="/wiki/International_Charlemagne_Prize" class="mw-redirect" title="International Charlemagne Prize">International Charlemagne Prize</a> of <a href="/wiki/Aachen" title="Aachen">Aachen</a> for his EU role.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CharlemagnePrize_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CharlemagnePrize-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="President's_cabinet"><span id="President.27s_cabinet"></span>President's cabinet</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: President's cabinet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Although the European Council is, under the terms of the Lisbon treaty, a separate institution of the EU, it does not have its own administration. The administrative support for both the European Council and its president is provided by the <a href="/wiki/General_Secretariat_of_the_Council_of_the_European_Union" title="General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union">General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union</a>. </p><p>The president does have, however, his own private office (<i>cabinet</i>) of close advisers. Van Rompuy chose as his chief of staff (<i>chef de cabinet</i>) Baron Frans van Daele, formerly Belgian ambassador to, variously, the US, the UN, the EU and NATO and chief of staff of several Belgian foreign ministers. Also in his team were the former (and later) UK Labour MEP <a href="/wiki/Richard_Corbett" title="Richard Corbett">Richard Corbett</a>, former Hungarian Ambassador to NATO Zoltan Martinusz, former head of the EU's economic & financial committee Odile Renaud-Basso, Dutch philosopher and journalist <a href="/wiki/Luuk_van_Middelaar" title="Luuk van Middelaar">Luuk van Middelaar</a>, his main speech writer, and Van Rompuy's long standing press officer Dirk De Backer.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013 Frans Van Daele retired both as a diplomat and as chief of Staff of Van Rompuy, and was appointed chief of staff to <a href="/wiki/Philippe_of_Belgium" title="Philippe of Belgium">king Philippe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was succeeded as chief of staff of Herman Van Rompuy by Didier Seeuws. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_career">Later career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Later career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>When the EPP membership of Hungarian party <a href="/wiki/Fidesz" title="Fidesz">Fidesz</a> was suspended in 2019, EPP president <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Daul" title="Joseph Daul">Joseph Daul</a> appointed van Rompuy – alongside <a href="/wiki/Hans-Gert_P%C3%B6ttering" title="Hans-Gert Pöttering">Hans-Gert Pöttering</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%BCssel" title="Wolfgang Schüssel">Wolfgang Schüssel</a> – to a group of high-level experts who were mandated to monitor Fidesz's compliance with EPP values.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was appointed chairman of the board of the <a href="/wiki/College_of_Europe" title="College of Europe">College of Europe</a> in 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-coleurop_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-coleurop-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_activities">Other activities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Other activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Corporate_boards">Corporate boards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Corporate boards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dexia" title="Dexia">Dexia</a>, Board member and member of the audit committee (before 2008)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Educational_institutions">Educational institutions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Educational institutions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Centre_International_de_Formation_Europ%C3%A9enne" class="mw-redirect" title="Centre International de Formation Européenne">Centre International de Formation Européenne</a> (CIFE), President<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Non-profit_organizations">Non-profit organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Non-profit organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Club_of_Madrid" title="Club of Madrid">Club of Madrid</a>, Member<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Policy_Centre" title="European Policy Centre">European Policy Centre</a> (EPC), Chair of the Strategic Council<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>New Pact for Europe, Chair of the Advisory Group<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Trilateral_Commission" title="Trilateral Commission">Trilateral Commission</a>, Member of the European Group<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Belgian_honours_Belgium">Belgian honours<span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Belgian honours Belgium"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><ul><li>Created <b>Count van Rompuy</b>, by Royal Decree of 8 July 2015 of <a href="/wiki/Philippe_of_Belgium" title="Philippe of Belgium">King Philippe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_State_(Belgium)" title="Minister of State (Belgium)">Minister of State</a>, by Royal Decree of 26 January 2004 of <a href="/wiki/Albert_II_of_Belgium" title="Albert II of Belgium">King Albert II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Leopold_(Belgium)" title="Order of Leopold (Belgium)">Order of Leopold</a>: <ul><li><b>Commander</b>, by Royal Decree of 22 May 2003 of <a href="/wiki/Albert_II_of_Belgium" title="Albert II of Belgium">King Albert II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/List_of_Grand_Cordons_of_the_Order_of_Leopold" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold">Grand Cordon</a></b>, by Royal Decree of 23 December 2009 of <a href="/wiki/Albert_II_of_Belgium" title="Albert II of Belgium">King Albert II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_honours">Foreign honours</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Foreign honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Benin.svg/23px-Flag_of_Benin.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Benin.svg/35px-Flag_of_Benin.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Benin.svg/45px-Flag_of_Benin.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Benin</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/National_Order_of_Benin" title="National Order of Benin">National Order of Benin</a><sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/23px-Flag_of_France.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/35px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c3/Flag_of_France.svg/45px-Flag_of_France.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>: Grand Officier of the <a href="/wiki/Legion_of_Honour" title="Legion of Honour">Legion of Honour</a><sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire.svg/23px-Flag_of_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire.svg/35px-Flag_of_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Flag_of_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire.svg/45px-Flag_of_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Ivory_Coast" title="Ivory Coast">Ivory Coast</a>: Grand Officer of the <a href="/wiki/National_Order_of_the_Ivory_Coast" title="National Order of the Ivory Coast">National Order of the Ivory Coast</a><sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>: Grand Cordon (or 1st Class) of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Rising_Sun" title="Order of the Rising Sun">Order of the Rising Sun</a><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>: Knight Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Orange-Nassau" title="Order of Orange-Nassau">Order of Orange-Nassau</a> (10 October 2014)<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/23px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/35px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Flag_of_Romania.svg/45px-Flag_of_Romania.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a>: Grand Cross of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_Star_of_Romania" title="Order of the Star of Romania">Order of the Star of Romania</a><sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Flag_of_Slovakia.svg/45px-Flag_of_Slovakia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Slovakia" title="Slovakia">Slovakia</a>: Grand Officer (or 2nd Class) of the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_White_Double_Cross" title="Order of the White Double Cross">Order of the White Double Cross</a><sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gold_Medal_of_the_Jean_Monnet_Foundation_for_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Gold Medal of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe">Gold Medal of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe</a>, in 2014.</li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Slovenia.svg/23px-Flag_of_Slovenia.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Slovenia.svg/35px-Flag_of_Slovenia.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Flag_of_Slovenia.svg/46px-Flag_of_Slovenia.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Slovenia" title="Slovenia">Slovenia</a>: <a href="/wiki/Order_for_Exceptional_Merits" title="Order for Exceptional Merits">Order for Exceptional Merits</a><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Honorary_citizenships">Honorary citizenships</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Honorary citizenships"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vlag_Beersel.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Vlag_Beersel.svg/24px-Vlag_Beersel.svg.png" decoding="async" width="24" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Vlag_Beersel.svg/36px-Vlag_Beersel.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Vlag_Beersel.svg/48px-Vlag_Beersel.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="400" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Beersel" title="Beersel">Beersel, Belgium</a> (13 May 2012)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_De_Haan.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Flag_of_De_Haan.svg/24px-Flag_of_De_Haan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="24" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Flag_of_De_Haan.svg/36px-Flag_of_De_Haan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Flag_of_De_Haan.svg/48px-Flag_of_De_Haan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/De_Haan,_Belgium" title="De Haan, Belgium">De Haan, Belgium</a> (7 July 2012)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Olenvlag.gif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Olenvlag.gif/24px-Olenvlag.gif" decoding="async" width="24" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Olenvlag.gif/36px-Olenvlag.gif 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Olenvlag.gif/48px-Olenvlag.gif 2x" data-file-width="324" data-file-height="216" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Olen,_Belgium" title="Olen, Belgium">Olen, Belgium</a> (3 October 2013)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Matsuyama,_Ehime.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Flag_of_Matsuyama%2C_Ehime.svg/24px-Flag_of_Matsuyama%2C_Ehime.svg.png" decoding="async" width="24" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Flag_of_Matsuyama%2C_Ehime.svg/36px-Flag_of_Matsuyama%2C_Ehime.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Flag_of_Matsuyama%2C_Ehime.svg/48px-Flag_of_Matsuyama%2C_Ehime.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="323" data-file-height="215" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Matsuyama,_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Matsuyama, Japan">Matsuyama, Japan</a> (18 November 2013)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Kortessem.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Kortessem.svg/24px-Flag_of_Kortessem.svg.png" decoding="async" width="24" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Kortessem.svg/36px-Flag_of_Kortessem.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Kortessem.svg/48px-Flag_of_Kortessem.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="200" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Kortessem" title="Kortessem">Kortessem, Belgium</a> (16 May 2014)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Academic_honorary_degrees">Academic honorary degrees</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Academic honorary degrees"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Doctor_honoris_causa" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor honoris causa">Doctor honoris causa</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_catholique_de_Louvain" class="mw-redirect" title="Université catholique de Louvain">Catholic University of Louvain</a> (2 February 2010)<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doctor_honoris_causa" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor honoris causa">Doctor honoris causa</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Ghent_University" title="Ghent University">Ghent University</a> (18 March 2011)<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doctor_honoris_causa" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor honoris causa">Doctor honoris causa</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Katholieke_Universiteit_Leuven" class="mw-redirect" title="Katholieke Universiteit Leuven">Catholic University of Leuven</a> (1 June 2012)<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9e/Flag_of_Japan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Japan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>: <a href="/wiki/Doctor_honoris_causa" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor honoris causa">Doctor honoris causa</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Kobe_University" title="Kobe University">Kobe University</a> (4 March 2011)<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg/46px-Flag_of_Azerbaijan.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>: <a href="/wiki/Doctor_honoris_causa" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor honoris causa">Doctor honoris causa</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_University_of_Languages" title="Azerbaijan University of Languages">Azerbaijan University of Languages</a> (5 July 2012)<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/23px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/35px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Flag_of_Vietnam.svg/45px-Flag_of_Vietnam.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>: <a href="/wiki/Doctor_honoris_causa" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor honoris causa">Doctor honoris causa</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_National_University,_Hanoi" title="Vietnam National University, Hanoi">Vietnam National University, Hanoi</a> (1 November 2012)<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>: <a href="/wiki/Doctor_honoris_causa" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor honoris causa">Doctor honoris causa</a> from the <a href="/wiki/CEU_San_Pablo_University" class="mw-redirect" title="CEU San Pablo University">CEU San Pablo University</a> (12 December 2013)<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Benin.svg/23px-Flag_of_Benin.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Benin.svg/35px-Flag_of_Benin.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Flag_of_Benin.svg/45px-Flag_of_Benin.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Benin</a>: <a href="/wiki/Doctor_honoris_causa" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor honoris causa">Doctor honoris causa</a> from the University of <a href="/wiki/Abomey-Calavi" title="Abomey-Calavi">Abomey-Calavi</a> (21 February 2014)<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>: <a href="/wiki/Doctor_honoris_causa" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor honoris causa">Doctor honoris causa</a> from the <a href="/wiki/VU_University_Amsterdam" class="mw-redirect" title="VU University Amsterdam">VU University Amsterdam</a> (20 October 2015)<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>: Honorary <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor of Laws">LL.D.</a> degree from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_St_Andrews" title="University of St Andrews">University of St Andrews</a> (21 June 2016)<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/ae/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>: Honorary <a href="/wiki/D.C.L." class="mw-redirect" title="D.C.L.">D.C.L.</a> degree from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Kent" title="University of Kent">University of Kent</a> (14 July 2016)<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards">Awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>: <a href="/wiki/Charlemagne_Prize" title="Charlemagne Prize">Charlemagne Prize</a> (29 May 2014)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Benelux-Europa_Prize&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Benelux-Europa Prize (page does not exist)">Benelux-Europa Prize</a> (12 June 2010)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>: Harvard Club of Belgium Leadership Prize (8 September 2010)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/23px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/35px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg/46px-Flag_of_Luxembourg.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="307" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg" title="Luxembourg">Luxembourg</a>: Collier du Mérite européen awarded by the European Merit Foundation (25 November 2010)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/23px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/35px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9a/Flag_of_Spain.svg/45px-Flag_of_Spain.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="500" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>: Nueva Economía Forum Prize (10 December 2010)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>: Golden medal of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Flemish_Academy_of_Belgium_for_Science_and_the_Arts" title="Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts">Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts</a> (14 January 2012)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>: Honorary senator E Meritu et Honoris Causa of the Movement for a United States of Europe – Action Centre for European federalism (AEF – BVSE), Antwerp (5 February 2012)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>: Otto von der Gablentz Prize (18 April 2012)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/23px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/35px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Flag_of_Austria.svg/45px-Flag_of_Austria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>: European Prize Coudenhove-Kalergi (16 November 2012)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg/45px-Flag_of_Belgium_%28civil%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>: Michele de Gianni Award (4 October 2013)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/23px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/35px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/12/Flag_of_Poland.svg/46px-Flag_of_Poland.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="800" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a>: Golden Business Centre Club Statuette Award, awarded at the Grand Gala of Polish Business Leaders, Warsaw (25 January 2014)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/23px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/35px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Flag_of_Germany.svg/46px-Flag_of_Germany.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>: ESMT Responsible Leadership Award, awarded by the European School of Management and Technology, Berlin, (3 July 2014)<sup id="cite_ref-EU_Biography_50-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EU_Biography-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg/45px-Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></span></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Netherlands" title="Netherlands">Netherlands</a>: Comenius prize (2 April 2016)<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Herman_Van_Rompuy&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: 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Machine</a> – website of the University of Abomey-Calav</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-62"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-62">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vu.nl/en/news-agenda/news/2015/jul-sep/vu-university-awards-honorary-doctorates-to-herman-van-rompuy-fons-orie-and-herta-flor.aspx">"VU University awards honorary doctorates to Herman van Rompuy, Fons Orie and Herta Flor – [jul-sep] – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam"</a>.</cite><span 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Andrews"</a>. 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<tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #ccccff;">Political offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Mieke_Offeciers" title="Mieke Offeciers">Mieke Offeciers</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Budget_(Belgium)" title="Minister of Budget (Belgium)">Minister of the Budget</a> </b><br />1993–1999 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Johan_Vande_Lanotte" title="Johan Vande Lanotte">Johan Vande Lanotte</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Herman_De_Croo" title="Herman De Croo">Herman De Croo</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Belgian_Chamber_of_Representatives" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Presidents of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives">President of the Chamber of Representatives</a></span> </b><br />2007–2008 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Dewael" title="Patrick Dewael">Patrick Dewael</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Yves_Leterme" title="Yves Leterme">Yves Leterme</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Belgium" title="Prime Minister of Belgium">Prime Minister of Belgium</a> </b><br />2008–2009 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Yves_Leterme" title="Yves Leterme">Yves Leterme</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Fredrik_Reinfeldt" title="Fredrik Reinfeldt">Fredrik Reinfeldt</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Council" title="President of the European Council">President of the European Council</a> </b><br />2009–2014 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Tusk" title="Donald Tusk">Donald Tusk</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FACEFF;">Diplomatic posts </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Chairperson of the <a href="/wiki/G7" title="G7">Group of 7</a> 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href="/wiki/Jules_de_Trooz" title="Jules de Trooz">de Trooz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frans_Schollaert" title="Frans Schollaert">Schollaert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Broqueville" title="Charles de Broqueville">de Broqueville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Cooreman" title="Gérard Cooreman">Cooreman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Delacroix" title="Léon Delacroix">Delacroix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Carton_de_Wiart" title="Henry Carton de Wiart">Carton de Wiart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Theunis" title="Georges Theunis">Theunis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aloys_Van_de_Vyvere" title="Aloys Van de Vyvere">Van de Vyvere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prosper_Poullet" title="Prosper Poullet">Poullet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Jaspar" title="Henri Jaspar">Jaspar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jules_Renkin" title="Jules Renkin">Renkin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_de_Broqueville" title="Charles de Broqueville">de Broqueville</a></li> <li><a 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<li><span class="nowrap">1953 <a href="/wiki/Jean_Monnet" title="Jean Monnet">Jean Monnet</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1954 <a href="/wiki/Konrad_Adenauer" title="Konrad Adenauer">Konrad Adenauer</a></span></li> <li><span class="tmp-color" style="color:silver">1955</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1956 <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1957 <a href="/wiki/Paul-Henri_Spaak" title="Paul-Henri Spaak">Paul-Henri Spaak</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1958 <a href="/wiki/Robert_Schuman" title="Robert Schuman">Robert Schuman</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1959 <a href="/wiki/George_C._Marshall" title="George C. Marshall">George C. 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title="Henry Kissinger">Henry Kissinger</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988 <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand" title="François Mitterrand">François Mitterrand</a> / <a href="/wiki/Helmut_Kohl" title="Helmut Kohl">Helmut Kohl</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989 <a href="/wiki/Brother_Roger" title="Brother Roger">Brother Roger</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990 <a href="/wiki/Gyula_Horn" title="Gyula Horn">Gyula Horn</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991 <a href="/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel" title="Václav Havel">Václav Havel</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992 <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Delors" title="Jacques Delors">Jacques Delors</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993 <a href="/wiki/Felipe_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Felipe González">Felipe González</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994 <a href="/wiki/Gro_Harlem_Brundtland" title="Gro Harlem Brundtland">Gro Harlem Brundtland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995 <a 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