European Union President Herman Van Rompuy parried questions about the realities of the Greek debt crisis, but ended a Tokyo news conference on a decidedly poetic note - a haiku."
The sun is rising / sleeping yet in Europe / still the same sun," he said at the end of the joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. Van Rompuy - known to some as Haiku Herman - is an avid writer of haiku, a traditional Japanese form of poetry.
He sometimes writes on political themes, but reserved comment on the meaning of his latest work.
This month the 62-year-old former Belgian prime minister published his first book of haiku, which are composed of three unrhymed lines totaling 17 syllables.
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