{"id":9181,"date":"2017-11-17T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/?p=9181"},"modified":"2025-11-19T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T15:47:00","slug":"herman-van-rompuy-speaks-carleton-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/2017\/herman-van-rompuy-speaks-carleton-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Herman Van Rompuy speaks at Carleton University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Herman Van Rompuy speaks at Carleton University\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Herman Van Rompuy, the former President of the European Council, visited Carleton University on November 17 to give a speech on &#8220;The Future of Europe&#8221;. He argued that there is a 15-month window of opportunity to &#8220;relaunch European integration&#8221;. According to Van Rompuy, three objectives &#8212; prosperity, security, and fairness &#8212; should serve as guideline for the future development of the European Union. Mr. Van Rompuy also commented on a large range of current issues, including Brexit, the refugee crisis, EU enlargement, and the relationship with Russia. After his speech, Mr. Van Rompuy answered questions from EURUS students and posed for&nbsp;a group picture. The event was organized in cooperation with the Office of the President of Carleton University and the Belgian Embassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Van-Rompuy2-240x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Van-Rompuy2-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Van-Rompuy2-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Van-Rompuy2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Van-Rompuy2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Van-Rompuy2-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Van-Rompuy2-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/Van-Rompuy2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Van Rompuy, the former President of the European Council, visited Carleton University on November 17 to give a speech on &#8220;The Future of Europe&#8221;. He argued that there is a 15-month window of opportunity to &#8220;relaunch European integration&#8221;. According to Van Rompuy, three objectives &#8212; prosperity, security, and fairness &#8212; should serve as guideline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9185,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9181\/revisions\/9185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/eurus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}