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{{Image|Van Rompuy Biden..jpg|right|350px|[[Joe Biden]] (left) and Herman Van Rompuy (right), meeting March 2009}}
'''Herman Achille Van Rompuy''' (born in [[Etterbeek]], [[Belgium]], October 31 1947) is a Belgian  politician, member  of the Flemish Christian-Democrat party (CD&V).
 
On 30 December 2008  Herman Van Rompuy became prime minister of Belgium and less than a year later, on  November 19, 2009, he was appointed as the first permanent president (chairman) of the  [[European Council]].  The European council  is the highest political body of the [[European Union]] and its chairman is informally referred to as the "President of Europe". The new position—President of the European Council—was created by the [[Treaty of Lisbon]] that was finally ratified by all 27 EU member states in November 2009.  It comes into effect on 1 December 2009.
 
In 1968  mr. Van Rompuy received a bachelor's degree in Philosophy  and in 1971 a master's degree (''licentiaat'')  in Applied Economics,  both from the Catholic University of  Leuven (Louvain).  He worked at the Belgian central bank from 1972 to 1975 and was Vice President of the Flemish Christian democrat  (CD&V, CVP at the time) youth section from 1973 to 1975.  From 1978 he was a member of the National Bureau of the CVP.  He worked in ministerial cabinets and became chairman of the Flemish Christian democrat  party  in 1988,  a position from which he resigned when  he became  budget minister in September 1993. He remained in that function until July 1999, when his party was defeated in the Belgian general elections. Herman Van Rompuy was Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies from July 2007 to December 2008, when he was asked by [[King Albert II]] to become  Prime Minister of Belgium.
 
Herman Van Rompuy is  of profound [[Roman Catholic]] faith and a firm believer in  Catholic doctrine.  He wrote several books (in Flemish) and has as a hobby the composition of [[Haiku]] poems. He is married to Geertrui Windels and father of two sons and two daughters.

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