Guy Verhofstadt @GuyVerhofstadt@respublicae.eu

China’s playing our weaknesses…
Sanctions are weak and leaking, Europe’s defence fragmented… They are playing the long game we have given up.
In the new world order, EU will be united… or totally dependent !
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/14/china/g7-accuses-china-enabling-russia-war-ukraine-intl-hnk/index.html

[2024-06-16 12:23 UTC]

Dutch government hasn’t even started and extreme right PVV minister already had to be withdrawn as ‘integrity risk’…
The extreme right cannot be trusted with state secrets… let alone our security and sovereignty !

[2024-06-14 16:10 UTC]

A lesson to all countries tempted to believe the extreme right & think that leaving the EU & closing borders will make migration disappear...

[2024-06-13 13:18 UTC]

Putin’s party meets in Brussels… talking about security but selling our sovereignty to whoever hates Europe the most 🤷🏼‍♂️

[2024-06-13 06:33 UTC]

Imagine for one moment. Your children are abducted & put up for adoption by an invading power.
A clear Russian war crime. Yet many of Europe's businesses & far right continue to profit from links with Putin.
https://www.ft.com/content/2d0013d2-a407-449f-b1e2-3d14fe65188f?shareType=nongift

[2024-06-12 15:12 UTC]

Nuclear warheads near Poland and ships to Cuba… Putin is cornered and dangerous.
We need urgent support to Ukraine and… finally… European plans to deter him going further.
No time to lose.
No excuses !

[2024-06-11 14:55 UTC]

Europe needs a solid pro-European majority to answer voters’ concerns: migration, economy, defence, climate… and it needs urgent reform to make it more effective !
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[2024-06-10 07:57 UTC]

The privilege of voting… use it wisely !🇪🇺

[2024-06-09 14:44 UTC]

EU has reached the point of no return: Hungary blocking Ukraine again… and soon in the presidency chair to block everything.
We need to finally use Art. 7 and take away Orbán's voting rights… and extortion power !
https://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/news/eu-countries-vent-anger-at-hungarys-blockages-of-ukraine-aid-decisions/

[2024-06-08 08:36 UTC]

For the first time since 1979, there will be no European elections in 🇬🇧
"Take back control" = no say on European affairs. A nonsense & a disgrace!
Here's to Brits & Ukrainians participating in the next European 🇪🇺 elections of 2029!

[2024-06-06 14:07 UTC]

For five years, centrists in
https://nitter.privacydev.net/RenewEurope
played a strong role as pro- 🇪🇺 kingmakers in the European Parliament.
Curtailing EPP & Socialist excesses, exposing the far right.
We demanded more from Europe, on Covid, Ukraine. Ahead of
https://nitter.privacydev.net/search?q=%23EP2024
, make a plan to vote. Vote liberal!

[2024-06-06 09:19 UTC]

To repel Putin we need a European Defence Union integrated from procurement to deployment.
It can be done… if we finally start NOW !
https://www.dw.com/en/german-defense-minister-calls-for-war-readiness-by-2029/a-69276059

[2024-06-06 08:07 UTC]

Today, we remember the heroes of D-Day. 80 years ago, the fight to free Europe from fascism began.
Cherish the freedoms they died to give us. Individual thought, democratic choice.
Know the far right threat today is real. Use your vote in the coming days for a 🇪🇺 of peace!

[2024-06-06 06:51 UTC]

RT by @GuyVerhofstadt: Well done @KeirStarmer on a robust defence of the ECHR. 👏

100% right that it had Churchill’s fingerprints on it.

In fact, it was 75 years ago this month, when the European Movement submitted the first draft of the ECHR to the Council.

See the names on the document below.

[2024-06-04 22:17 UTC]

4 June 1989 is the day hope for a more humane China was crushed… but it will never die !

[2024-06-04 18:30 UTC]

Europe is so backward thinking about national sovereignty it criminally neglects our common security.
We need a European Defence Union with own resources to finance it & common political structures to lead it. Everything less is useless… & dangerous.
https://www.ft.com/content/5953405f-d91a-4598-8b6b-6345452ca328

[2024-06-04 14:26 UTC]

EU has been patient too long… now we get an Orbán presidency at a crucial political moment & his relations with Putin and Trump are potentially destructive.
Stop this madness — use Art 7 !
Drop the veto & reform the EU into a functional Union !
https://www.politico.eu/article/hadja-lahbib-hungary-belgium-eu-governments-nuclear-option-article-7-sanction-budapest/

[2024-06-03 12:15 UTC]

The big question for Europe is: What happens when Trump returns?!
We need a refoundation: a new treaty establishing a real Union, capable to defend its interests and security… without the US if necessary !
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/29/what-if-trump-guilty-prison-fine

[2024-06-02 12:17 UTC]

America faces a stark choice: To be a country where the law applies to all… or one where the powerful like Trump get away with anything.
The second option is a one-way road to authoritarianism !
https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-30-24/index.html

[2024-05-31 06:08 UTC]

Nationalism does not offer solutions…only fragmentation, blockages, weakness… a Europe divided and ineffective.
We need the exact opposite ! Time to decide !

[2024-05-29 10:44 UTC]