In a BBC interview, Herman Van Rompuy said there was now "much more sympathy" for European regions seeking EU membership. Mr Van Rompuy said the process of joining the EU was "complicated".

In that sense I am a politician-haiku poet rather than a haiku poet-politician.” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte seems to have been tempted, albeit briefly, by this notion of the poet-politician or ...

Today, the Council appointed Preben Aamann as the new Director-General for Communication and Information (COMM).

Instead, leaders are poised to give speeches about "growth", congratulate themselves for the re-election of Herman Van Rompuy as Council president and sign the 'fiscal compact' treaty. A "no ...

We hope it is going to be in the next few days," a source in the European Council, presided over by Herman Van Rompuy, told EURACTIV. The issue of the Union's speaking rights was raised by ...

The Queen of the Plough received her doctorate alongside the first European Council President Herman Van Rompuy. Human rights campaigner Colm O’Gorman and leading businessman Dr Leonard O’Hagan also ...

There have been politicians who have fancied themselves as poets. There was Herman Van Rompuy in April 2010 who, when President of the European Council, imposed an anthology of haiku poetry ...