Career
Van Rompuy is the sister of Herman Van Rompuy, European Union"s first full-time president of the European Council, and the Flemish politician Eric Van Rompuy. She earned her diploma as a psychiatric nurse in 1977. Since 2004 she is head nurse at the Central Patient Transport Service at the University Hospital of Leuven.
This attracted some attention, and according to some media reports, they have not spoken since.
However, Van Rompuy said on her personal weblog that she is "happy that brother will be president of Europe", and that she would give him a "little box" with a message that "the 2 % who are the richest, pay a tax of 2% on their wealth".
