Van Rompuy Government Van Rompuy Government The Van Rompuy Government was the federal government of Belgium from 30 December 2008 until 15 November 2009. Herman Van Rompuy was nominated as the first President of the European Council and resigned shortly after as Premier. It took office when the Flemish Christian Democrat Herman Van Rompuy (Christian Democratic and Flemish, CD&V) was sworn in as Prime Minister after the Leterme I Government fell on 22 December 2008. On 18 December 2008, Yves Leterme offered his government's resignation to King Albert after a scandal erupted surrounding the investigation of the sale of the failing Fortis bank
President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia The President of the Federal Executive Council was the head of government of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, from the adoption of the 1963 constitution until the complete breakup of the country in 1992. The 1953 Yugoslav constitutional law proclaimed the country to be a socialist state and abolished the institutions of Prime Minister and Government that had existed since the country's establishment in 1918. A new office of President of the Republic was created for Yugoslav communist leader Josip Broz Tito which would be both the country's head of state