MFF: ALDE still has reservations on outcome of latest talks
20/06/2013
The Liberals and Democrats take the budgetary powers of the European Parliament too seriously to confirm reports that negotiations on the next multiannual financial framework are closed. "At this stage, there is still no...
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Merkel and Schäuble are condemning the Eurozone to death by a thousand cuts
15/04/2013
After more than four years of sustained financial crisis and ad hoc policy measures, the Cypriot experience has demonstrated just how fragile and unstable the current foundations of the Euro are.
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Speech by Guy Verhofstadt - Intervention in plenary - Spring European Council
13/03/2013
Intervention by Guy Verhofstadt
13 March 2013
Spring European Council
Dear President, I start with a request to you. May I ask you to raise in your intervention at the European Council the issue of Hungary ?What is happening...
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Guy Verhofstadt : "Sorry M. Van Rompuy but this is a budget of the past, not for the future. "
18/02/2013
Responding today at the European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, invited to the enlarged Conference of Presidents to present the results of the last European Council on the next multiannual financial framework, Guy...
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Speech by Guy Verhofstadt - Intervention in plenary - Visit Hollande
05/02/2013
Intervention Guy Verhofstadt
November 21 2012
Visit Hollande
Monsieur le Président,
Permettez-moi tout d'abord de féliciter le libéral qui est en vous. Je ne veux pas vous créer des problèmes chez vos amis...
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Keynote speech by Guy Verhofstadt at PARNAS conference "European Union and Russian Federation: Attraction and Repulsion"
07/12/2012
Despite the allegations from the Kremlin and from its ruling clique, Russia is not threatened by so-called Western values of democracy, rule of law or fundamental rights. Nor are the US State Department, the European Parliament,...
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Speech by Guy Verhofstadt - Intervention to the World Outgames 2013
04/12/2012
It is a pleasure to be here together with the Prime Minister and you all to launch the World Outgames 2013 in Antwerp. I am here today not only to launch this sportive and festive event, but also to express my support and firm...
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Speech by Guy Verhofstadt - Intervention in plenary - Debate on MFF & Budget
21/11/2012
Intervention Guy Verhofstadt
November 21 2012
Debate on MFF & Budget
Six years ago Tony Blair, President of the Council, when presenting the new multi-annual financial framework for 2006-2012 said, "Never...
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Speech by Guy Verhofstadt to ELDR Party Congress, Dublin, November 2012
09/11/2012
Dear colleagues, dear friends,
1. I thank Michéal Martin for hosting this congress. I’m very confident Fianna Fail will become again the leading political force in Ireland.
Why am I saying this, because they are the...
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Verhofstadt: Sovereignty is better pooled at EU level than lost in a global world
19/09/2012
On the same day as the EU reform proposals of eleven foreign ministers and one week after the positive verdict of the German Constitutional Court in on the legitimacy of the European Stability Mechanism, ALDE group leader Guy...
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