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Intervention Guy Verhofstadt - Outcome of Eurozone crisis summit

27/10/2011

Let me as always be very blunt: I am relieved. Finally, we start to put in place a global and bold approach to stabilise the euro. Finally, we stop our hesitating approach of the last 20 months.
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Interview of Guy Verhofstadt on the outcome of the emergency euro summit.

27/10/2011

BBC Radio 4 "The Today programme" Thursday 27th October 2011
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Intervention of Guy Verhofstadt on the State of the Union

28/09/2011

The State of the Union is bad. I think we can all agree on that. Let us be clear. Today 's crisis is not about Greece, or the debt of Greece. Today's crisis is about the euro, the European Union, the existence of the European...
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Intervention of Guy Verhofstadt on the July massacre in Norway

14/09/2011

In 1940, at the start of the nazi-occupation, the Norwegian poet Nordahl Grieg wrote: "We are so few in this country. Every fallen is a brother or a friend."
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Intervention [EP-TV] of Guy Verhofstadt on the Eurozone crisis

02/09/2011

Europarltv's new programme '7 Days in Europe' looks at recent events in the EU, tackles economic governance and asks how the eurozone crisis can be resolved.
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Intervention of Guy Verhofstadt on Greece and Schengen

28/06/2011

My first point concerns Greece and the so-called economic governance package, the six-pack. The position of the Parliament is very clear: We want a bolder package.
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International community continues to procrastinate while Syrian demonstrators are killed

29/03/2011

Reacting to the escalating violent repressions of demonstrations in Syria, ALDE President, Guy Verhofstadt has called on the International Community, and in a first instance the European Union, to take a firm and resolute...
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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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Speech by Guy Verhofstadt on EU Libya, Bruxelles, 16 March 2011

16/03/2011

In the name of my Group I also want to share my deepest condolences with the Japanese people. I want also to use this opportunity to salute the fifty heroes, the fifty heroes in the power plant of Fukushima, the fifty heroes...
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Speech by Guy Verhofstadt on Tunisia/Egypt, Bruxelles, 2nd February 2011

02/02/2011

Don't be afraid. The world is aware that there are historic events taking place in Egypt and Tunisia. What is happening in North Africa and the Middle East is reminiscent of the events in Europe in 1989. That is why I am...
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