Former European Council President Herman Van Rompuy | Giuseppe Lami/EPA Herman Van Rompuy records anti-terrorism song Former European Council president joins forces with Flemish singer.

Former European Council President Herman Van Rompuy's dulcet tones can be heard on a song by Flemish singer Dana Winner, recorded to commemorate those who lost their lives in the terror attacks in Brussels.

Winner told the broadcaster VRT that she was looking for someone to help with her song "Liefde wint altijd" ("Love always wins") and the former Belgian prime minister agreed to take part.

"Herman Van Rompuy is most suited. He has been responsible for connecting citizens in the EU. And he used to work close to the place of the attack [Maalbeek metro station]," Winner said.

Van Rompuy, who reads a haiku partway through the song, said: "What I like about the song is that love is the only answer to terror and hatred. That message is brought forward."

Van Rompuy, who was the first ever president of the European Council, from 2009 to 2014, is a published poet and has the nickname "Haiku Herman."

In "Love always wins" he reads out the following lines:

"You asked me: 'Where are the flowers.'

But you did not wait for an answer.

Because now you know there is only one thing,

which is stronger than hatred and all things bad.