EU Leaders must be unflinching in support for Arab democracy movements
25/03/2011
Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE group leader commented on the latest discussions between Member States:
"The Member States have not been consistent or strong enough in supporting the democratic aspirations of the people in Syria, Yemen...
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We still have no coherent EU Strategy on the Middle East revolutions
23/03/2011
The ALDE group is demanding clarification on the EU's position on Bahrain and the wider region following the conclusions of Monday's Foreign Affairs Ministers calling "on demonstrators to refrain
from deliberately intimidating...
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Verhofstadt: UNSC paves way for decisive action on Libya
17/03/2011
Responding to a United Nations Security Council resolution this evening on Libya which calls for a no-fly zone, except for humanitarian flights and those necessary to protect or evacuate civilians as well as an enforcement of the...
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Verhofstadt on Libya: "The weak position of the EU makes me sick"
16/03/2011
The fall-out from the Japanese tsunami has inevitably dominated media reports and blurred international attention to the rout of the Libyan opposition, left to fend off Gaddafi and his mercenaries by themselves.
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Guy Verhofstadt: Europe must avoid another Srebrenica in Libya
14/03/2011
Last Friday EU leaders appeared united in their calls on Gaddafi to step down and end the civil war engulfing Libya yet indecisive over the means to bring force him to stop. Members of the Libyan National Transitional Council...
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Libya: The Twenty Seven finally take their responsibilities
11/03/2011
While the military offensive led by Gaddafi still threatens the young Libyan revolution, EU Heads of State and Governments are finally ready to take a series of insufficient yet concrete decisions to support the democratic...
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EU must recognise legitimacy of Libyan Interim Council
10/03/2011
The ALDE Group arranged for two senior members of the National Interim Council of Libya to come to Strasbourg this week to hear directly from them what should be done to support those fighting for freedom and democracy in Libya....
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Liberals call for EU Marshall Plan for new Arab democracies
28/02/2011
Following a weekend visit to Cairo, Guy Verhofstadt (ALDE group leader), Edward McMillan-Scott (Lib Dem, UK) and Hans Van Baalen (VVD, Netherlands and President of Liberal International) are urging the European Union to develop a...
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How many deaths in Libya before the EU takes action?
26/02/2011
"Faced with the prospect of civil war and bloodshed on a large scale in Libya if Colonel Gaddafi sticks to his threat to kill all his opponents, European Union leaders must move swiftly from deliberation to decisive action,...
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ALDE calls on EU High Representative to provide substantial assistance to Egypt
17/02/2011
Today in Strasbourg, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on Egypt with broad consensus across politician lines. Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE President, gave his robust support for the masses in Egypt but also asked for action...
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