Guy Verhofstadt
Back row from left - Unidentified official, Belgian Foreign minister Louis Michel, and Spanish Javier Solana, EU Foreign Policy Chief. Front row from left - Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, Nigerian Olusegun Obasanjo, Zambian President Frederick Chiluba, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, South African head of state Thabo Mbeki, and Egyptian Minister of Planning, Mohammed Mahrus El-Dersh pose together, 10 October 2001, in Brussels, prior to a working meeting to prepare tomorrow's EU-Africa Summit.
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EU's aid to Egypt ineffective - audit
ECA member responsible for the report. The leader of the European Parliament's centrist ALDE group, former Belgian premier Guy Verhofstadt, said the report showed that "the EU is not taking its conditionality seriously regarding Egypt" and called for an urgent from News24 Read more »
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Verhofstadt, Cohn-Bendit win 'European Leader' prize
Liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt and French Green MEP Daniel Cohn Bendit are the joint winners of the 2013 European Leader of Year award. Verhofstadt, a former prime minister of Belgium, picked up the prize, jointly organised by Euronews and the European Executive from Euronews Read more »
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EU 'needs new fundamental law'
after next year's European elections, says one of the bloc's top politicians. The liberal leader in the European Parliament, Guy Verhofstadt, called for a "new fundamental law for the EU" to give the bloc long-term cohesion. The former Belgian prime minister from BBC News Read more »
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LibLink… Guy Verhofstadt: Europe needs to change, but with Britain at its heart
in the Independent, Guy Verhofstadt, president of the Liberal group in the European Parliament calls for Britain to seek EU-wide reform rather than a swathe of opt-outs. Other European leaders have stressed their desire for the UK to remain part of the EU, from Liberal Democrat Voice Read more »
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AP Interview: Rebels want arms post-EU embargo
after he discussed the situation in Syria with the leader of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Guy Verhofstadt, not seen, at the European Parliament in Brussels. The commander of the main umbrella group of Syrian rebels said Tuesday, from Beaumont Enterprise Read more »
