Guy Verhofstadt @GuyVerhofstadt@respublicae.eu

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]

Good !
But it would be even beter if the EU were in the lead to deliver jets and weapons to Ukraine.
For Ukraine to become an EU member, it first needs to win the war !
🇺🇦✊🏻🇪🇺
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2024/05/28/president-zelensky-visits-belgium-ukraine-to-receive-30-f-16-fi/

[2024-05-28 14:13 UTC]

Freedom in Hong Kong is dead….
China’s credibility as an international partner is dead too… it will settle for nothing less than total domination.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/28/china/hong-kong-security-arrests-hnk-intl/index.html

[2024-05-28 12:04 UTC]

This is unlimited warfare…
The international community must pressure both sides to come to the table and outline a peaceful future for both Israeli's and Palestinians… and stop the unlimited suffering of innocent people !
https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-05-27-24/index.html

[2024-05-27 15:02 UTC]

A far - right Europe is a recipe for paralysis!
Shame on Ursula von der Leyen for seeking an alliance with Giorgia Meloni, who targets LGBTIQ families.
Less than two weeks for pro - Europeans to make a plan to vote & save Europe from stagnation !
https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-giorgia-meloni-italy-france-eu-election-far-right-block-european-parliament/

[2024-05-27 06:20 UTC]

It’s criminal not to deliver additional air-defense and it’s even more criminal not to allow Ukraine to strike military targets in Russia !
How many civilians have to die before Western leaders change course !

[2024-05-25 18:16 UTC]

Meloni is taking Italy down a dangerous path, undermining its media freedom.
https://nitter.privacydev.net/EMInternational
demands the Commission
https://nitter.privacydev.net/VeraJourova
start an investigation & guarantee an open campaign for the EU elections !
🇮🇹 🇪🇺

[2024-05-25 09:44 UTC]

Fly the EU flag & the thought police will intervene!
Russia? China? No, Tory Britain !
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-69050230

[2024-05-24 07:18 UTC]

With a European Defense Union an EU air defense shield would already have been a reality !
Meanwhile, the best protection for the EU now is to help Ukraine defend itself by giving them what they ask for !
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/33177

[2024-05-24 06:17 UTC]

Taiwan’s democratically elected president calls on China to stop its intimidation, Beijing's answer is… more intimidation.
China has to choose: be a pillar of global stability or a factor of instability the likes of which we haven’t seen in decades !

[2024-05-23 13:54 UTC]

Putin advocates creating a "sanitary zone", a zone of death, inside free Ukraine.
But it is "escalatory" for Ukraine to strike invaders massing inside Russia.
Being servants to Russian narratives only weakens Ukraine ! 🇺🇦

[2024-05-22 11:56 UTC]

A shameful picture….
The United Nations Security Council standing in silence to commemorate… Iran’s leading mass murderer.

[2024-05-21 16:37 UTC]

Ebrahim Raisi was a mass murderer and one of the chief organisers of the regime’s increasing inhumanity and impunity…

[2024-05-20 07:13 UTC]

A two-term Trump would get away with anything… even a third term.
You’re now fighting for the Republic… or against it !
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/trump-nra-convention-dallas

[2024-05-19 21:00 UTC]

The road to violence starts with violent rhetoric…
Many EU countries, parties and politicians who should know better are advancing on that same path.
Time for all democrats to reconsider !
https://www.politico.eu/article/prime-minister-robert-fico-shooting-attempted-assassination-slovakia-divisions/

[2024-05-19 12:13 UTC]

History and common sense will tell you: the extreme right will not become less extreme in government… they will only have more power to poison politics further.
Hard to see a liberal party make this dangerous, illiberal mistake.

[2024-05-16 08:23 UTC]