Guy Verhofstadt @GuyVerhofstadt@respublicae.eu

Positive news, but why limit this to 18 - 30 year olds?
A return to real free movement for all, which was always conditional, would also open up the EU single market & end some of the Tory Brexit bureaucracy !
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/18/brussels-proposes-return-to-pre-brexit-free-movement-for-uk-and-eu-young-people?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

[2024-04-18 15:32 UTC]

7 out of 10 Europeans want to vote… knowing that the current geopolitical context makes it more important than ever.
Europe means democracy — Democracy needs Europe !
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[2024-04-18 11:27 UTC]

Let’s face it: for strategic, defence, green investments… Europe needs a bigger budget.
Perfectly possible and responsible option: Eurobonds and own resources…
The status quo is untenable and irresponsible !
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-global-plans-money-green-economy/

[2024-04-18 08:26 UTC]

Ridiculous own goal…
We cherish freedom of speech, even for those - like Orbán - who don’t.
Democrats should push back not with censorship but with a more convincing, more compelling and more energetic vision of a better world !
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/17/natcon-conference-resume-brussels-court-overturns-closure-order

[2024-04-17 09:00 UTC]

Letta is entirely right: We need a fully integrated single market financial services, energy, digital communications en tech… and national thinking has been holding us back for years.
Time to act !
https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/letta-to-recommend-creation-of-eu-deep-tech-stock-exchange/

[2024-04-17 06:33 UTC]

Georgians are loud and clear: No to Russian interference !
And they are right !
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23TbilisiProtests

[2024-04-16 18:38 UTC]

Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Greece…
Europe has Patriot anti-missile systems and Ukraine badly needs them.
86 MEPs call on them to deliver the Patriots NOW !

[2024-04-16 15:24 UTC]

Ukraine was a wake-up call…
Iran is a wake-up call…
Trump’s possible return is a wake-up call…
When will Europe finally wake up and get its act together on security and defense and establish a European Defense Union ?!
https://www.politico.eu/article/volodymyr-zelenskyy-us-iran-attack-israel-wake-up-call-allies/

[2024-04-15 11:23 UTC]

This is what radical right says out in the open… imagine what pro-Putin messages they are pushing online, and why…
We need a full investigation into foreign interference. Our democracy is not for sale !
https://www.politico.eu/article/i-hope-ukraine-will-lose-meps-russian-propaganda-channel/

[2024-04-14 09:26 UTC]

Islamic Revolutionary Guard begins attack against Israel…
For years we’ve known that IGRC is destabilising the whole region and is behind multiple terrorist attacks all over the world.
Why have we still not labeled them as a terrorist organization ?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/13/iran-launches-drone-attack-against-israel

[2024-04-13 21:22 UTC]

Germany just announced it will deliver an additional Patriot system to Ukraine.
Good… still 6 to go !
Come on Greece, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Romania !

[2024-04-13 14:59 UTC]

Austrian security services, the European Parliament, media, radical right and left- wing parties across Europe… Putin is buying Europe.
Time for voters to realise… and fight back !

[2024-04-13 08:02 UTC]

BREAKING — Parliament refuses discharge of the Council budget until European Council decided to support Ukraine with additional Patriot anti-missile systems !

[2024-04-11 10:30 UTC]

Stalin is back… but Europe’s reaction is so insufficient it’s irresponsible.
When will EU leaders finally develop a real vision of Europe’s common defence?
My op-ed in Le Monde👇🏻
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/04/11/guy-verhofstadt-eurodepute-belge-au-xxi-siecle-notre-souverainete-sera-europeenne-ou-ne-sera-pas_6227168_3232.html

[2024-04-11 08:40 UTC]

Staline est de retour… la réaction européenne reste insuffisante, voire irresponsable.
A quand une vraie vision de la défense européenne?
Ma tribune dans Le Monde 👇🏻
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2024/04/11/guy-verhofstadt-eurodepute-belge-au-xxi-siecle-notre-souverainete-sera-europeenne-ou-ne-sera-pas_6227168_3232.html

[2024-04-11 07:47 UTC]

Reminder: if the European Council hadn’t blocked any and every serious discussion on migration & asylum for almost a decade, we would have done so much more to assuage people’s fears !
Veto’s are killing Europe !
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/state-of-the-union-lack-of-union-in-eu-says-juncker

[2024-04-10 19:30 UTC]

Finally, we send the right signal on migration & asylum: Europe works !
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/10/eu-migration-deal-parliament-vote/

[2024-04-10 18:12 UTC]

Putin will destroy Ukraine… unless we stop him !
We have to urgently send the 7 Patriot systems Ukraine needs to protect its citizens… and our own peace and freedoms !

[2024-04-10 10:55 UTC]

Evgenia Kara-Murza and Bill Browder are two of the bravest people that I know… their fight is our fight as the crackdown in Russia by the Kremlin is a threat to all of us !
Europe has to support the democratic opposition inside Russia with all means possible !

[2024-04-10 09:28 UTC]

Budapest…
The beginning of the end for Putin’s puppet Orbàn

[2024-04-06 18:13 UTC]