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	Guy Verhofstadt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Verhofstadt II Following the 2003 general elections, Verhofstadt formed his second cabinet without the green parties, who were virtually annihilated in the election.
		Verhofstadt's second government was sworn in on July 12, 2003, with both coalition partners having agreed to abolish the so-called "genocide law" and replace it with a much weaker one.
		Verhofstadt was suggested as a candidate to replace Romano Prodi as the next President of the European Commission, but his candidacy was opposed and rejected by a coalition led by Tony Blair and Silvio Berlusconi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guy_Verhofstadt (721 words)

	GUY VERHOFSTADT FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Guy Verhofstadt (born April_11, 1953) is the current Prime_Minister of Belgium.
		Verhofstadt's second government was sworn in on July_12, 2003, with both coalition partners having agreed to abolish the so-called "genocide law" and replace it with a much weaker one.
		Verhofstadt was suggested as a candidate to replace Romano_Prodi as the next President of the European_Commission, but his candidacy was opposed and rejected by a coalition led by Tony_Blair and Silvio_Berlusconi.
	www.amysflowershop.com /Guy_Verhofstadt (685 words)

	Belgium: right-wing Vlaams Blok benefits from hostility to government
		Verhofstadt himself insisted that the European results (in which the VLD polled 13.56 percent, again placing them third behind VB, who took 14.34 percent of the vote) were “not as bad as all that”.
		Verhofstadt was the favoured candidate of the French and Germans.
		Verhofstadt, for example, told Flemish papers Het Volk and Het Nieuwsblad that he believed it was time to open a frank dialogue with VB in order to expose the “simplistic” weaknesses of their politics.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jun2004/belg-j30_prn.shtml (1200 words)

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		Verhofstadt himself recently remarked, drawing on Hoelderin, “what we need to guide the European Union to its final destination are both gods and beggars, both dreamers and thinkers.” But Guy Verhofstadt adds another quality to Holderin’s depiction, namely the active agent of change.
		Verhofstadt has assured that the question of the goals of a integrated Europe remain squarely in the centre of public discourse, calling for discussion of the nature of European identity and of Europe’s future, a discussion which goes well beyond consideration of the concrete edifices of European decision-making.
		Guy Verhofstadt est l’un de ce petit nombre.
	www.ping.be /~sintlod4/spotlight/fed_reg/verhofstadt/verhofstadt_canada_12122001/ceremonie1.htm (545 words)

	CNN.com - Belgium's speedy VIPs dodge law - March 12, 2002
		Tuesday's revelation is especially embarrassing for Verhofstadt because it comes days after he publically criticised a member of the Belgian royal family for speeding.
		Verhofstadt wrote to the prince, whose father is King Albert II, calling on him to change his ways on the nation's roads.
		Verhofstadt, who was in the passenger seat, said his car was exempt from normal traffic regulations.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/03/12/belgium.speed (316 words)

	Globalisationdebate.be 2002 - Biography Guy Verhofstadt
		Guy Verhofstadt was born in Dendermonde in 1953.
		Verhofstadt wrote a series of Civil Manifestos, trenchant analyses of what was wrong with Belgian politics.
		Guy Verhofstadt is acknowledged as a passionate politician, a gifted speaker and a razor-sharp polemicist.
	www.globalisationdebate.be /2002/program/biography/bio_premier.htm (198 words)

	CNN.com - Belgian 'ethical globalisation' call - September 26, 2001
		Verhofstadt, 48, whose country holds the rotating European Union presidency, was speaking in advance of expected protests by anti-capitalist groups at an EU summit in the Belgian towns of Ghent on October 19 and Laeken in December.
		Verhofstadt's call for "ethical globalisation" matches the ethical foreign policy championed by his rainbow coalition government, which took strong stands against ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and Austria's far right.
		Guy Taylor, an activist for the UK group Globalise Resistance, said: "We always welcome comments like this but we are very sceptical.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/09/26/belgium.global (503 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Belgian leader injured as automobile crashes, rolls
		BRUSSELS, Belgium –; Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was hospitalized with several bruised ribs and other injuries Tuesday after his chauffeur-driven car crashed against a concrete pillar near his home and overturned several times, officials said.
		Verhofstadt was returning to his home in Ghent from Brussels, some 30 miles away, following two days of governmental meetings when the accident occurred around 10 p.m.
		Interior Minister Patrick De Wael told the VTM TV station Verhofstadt had "a number of bruised ribs" and was already prepared to talk to police investigating the cause of the crash.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040921-2132-belgium-premieraccident.html (168 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Current EU President Guy Verhofstadt and EU Commission President Romano Prodi are considering to make a quick stop in the capital of Kabul during their trip to India and Pakistan.
		Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and Mr Michel then said that they "would do their utmost" to prevent the African issue, particularly the one of Congo and the Large Lakes, from disappearing from the European and international negotiation agenda following the Belgian EU Presidency.
		Premier Verhofstadt further pledged in favour of a European plan for reconstruction with a view of restoring peace and stability in Afghanistan, without harming the priorities of humanitarian aid, which should now be organised through the areas that are no longer being dominated by the Taliban.
	www.cyna.org.cy /eurobelga (22820 words)

	Embassy of Belgium in the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ah, yes, in between Guy Verhofstadt also went to Nr10 for Sunday night dinner, THE dinner…for the happy few (not to be repeated).
		Moreover, Mr Blair and Mr Verhofstadt have managed to broaden the impact of their happy relationship to a slowly, but steadily, growing number of representatives from both civil societies.
		Guy Verhofstadt had another highly symbolic(I thought) and warm encounter in Downing Street.
	www.diplobel.org /uk/pages/news/newsletters/nov01/edito.htm (269 words)

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		For various reasons, the formation of this government took much longer than the previous one: the economic situation was not as good as it was in 1999, and both political families (liberals and socialists) were approximately the same size.
		Unofficially there were threats to remove NATO headquarters from Brussels, which was widely seen as a vengeance for Belgium's opposition against the invasion of Iraq.
		Verhofstadt was suggested as a candidate to replace Romano Prodi as the next President of the European Commission, but his candidacy was opposed and rejected by a coalition led by Tony Blair and
	en-cyclopedia.com /wiki/Guy_Verhofstadt (675 words)

	Expatriate Online Belgium - Belgian News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mr Verhofstadt's federal coalition of liberals and socialists lost the Flemish elections in June and the two parties are now junior partners in a Flemish government presided over by the christian democrat Yves Leterme.
		Guy Verhofstadt has now taken the unprecedented step of issuing a Christmas message to the people of Belgium, a practise usually reserved for the monarch.
		In contrast with the premier's customary upbeat message Guy Verhofstadt concedes that 2004 was a year of confrontation that is best put behind us.
	www.expatriate-online.com /news/newsstory.cfm?story_no=1206 (430 words)

	Belgian premier pays sneak visit to Poland ahead of EU summit - EUbusiness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, a frontrunner to succeed Romano Prodi as European Commission president, paid a discreet visit to the EU's biggest new member Poland on Wednesday.
		Verhofstadt had arrived incognito late on Tuesday in Warsaw, and left again on Wednesday.
		Verhofstadt, a frontrunner for the job, who is backed by EU heavyweights France and Germany -- faces fierce opposition from Britain which sees him as too federalist.
	www.eubusiness.com /afp/040616142138.usgtvjfh (347 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » IRIN Update 1212 for the Great Lakes
		Verhofstadt, leading a delegation of 100 Belgians, including Foreign Minister Louis Michel, on a two-day visit to Kinshasa and Kisangani, is the first Belgian premier in 13 years to visit the DRC, IRIN sources accompanying the minister noted.
		Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and Foreign Minister Louis Michel met UN officials and rebel Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-Goma) leader Adolphe Onosumba in Kisangani on Sunday on the final leg of their two-day tour of the DRC.
		In a letter to the visiting Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, on Saturday, he claimed the killings had taken place on the night of 20-21 June, in an area around the villages of Kabalibali and Masimango, some 60 km from Ubundu along the Congo river.
	www.reliefweb.int /w/Rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/eb6b46e44345c7f585256a7d0062c4f3?OpenDocument (3052 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		EU leaders were also unable to agree on a joint candidate for the next president of the European Commission, with the front-runner, current Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, unable to obtain the requisite majority.
		Verhofstadt is a liberal, with strong federalist credentials and as such strongly supported by Germany and France.
		If Verhofstadt were elected today, he is still thought unlikely to obtain the approval of the European Parliament in July.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2004/6/8772F258-E5CC-4963-B276-F927F6D9A646.html (1061 words)

	Expatriate Online Belgium - Belgian News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Verhofstadt is a Flemish liberal of the VLD party and he is the main candidate of this party for the European parliament, although he has no intention to take up his seat in the assembly.
		In recent opinion polls Verhofstadt's VLD is losing ground, and the prime minister is thought to prepare his exit from Belgian to European politics.
		Prime minister Verhofstadt wants this to take place at the same time as a similar referendum in the Netherlands which is already planned and, if possible, with a referendum in Luxemburg.
	www.expatriate-online.com /news/newsstory.cfm?story_no=809 (455 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Belgian PM set for second term (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt is poised to form a new centre-left government after his coalition of Liberals and Socialists won the country's closely fought general election.
		Mr Verhofstadt victory means a second term in office after four years at the head of a six-party rainbow coalition.
		The coalition between Mr Verhofstadt's free-market Liberals, the Socialists and the Greens has been fractious, but it has brought in a range of reforms in a once socially conservative country - legalising gay marriages and euthanasia and decriminalising cannabis.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/europe/3037343.stm (540 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Opinion - Comment - Hard pounding gentlemen
		The determined vetoing of Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt was widely interpreted as an British-Italian reaction to his opposition to their military joint venture in Iraq; it was not.
		Verhofstadt had, in fact, described the constitution as "the capstone of a European federal state", and the coordinated resistance to his candidacy was a comment on the future direction of the EU.
		The newer EU states were able to boast successes in securing adequate voting weights for each country in the council of ministers and fending off severe reductions in the size of the commission.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /comment.cfm?id=699802004 (2197 words)

	InfoNet - News - Civil society - Guy Verhofstadt, President of the Council of Ministers of the Union, sends an “open ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Guy Verhofstadt, President of the Council of Ministers of the Union, sends an “open letter” to the opponents of globalisation
		Taking a personal initiative, he wrote an “open letter” that was translated into some thirty languages and published on Wednesday, 26 September, in the press of the Member States of the European Union, the applicant countries and all continents, covering more than fifty countries in all.
		Given the Belgian government's fears of violence on the occasion of the European summits of Ghent and Laeken, Guy Verhofstadt is trying to initiate a dialogue between politicians and the movements that oppose globalisation.
	europa.eu.int /infonet/en/archives/0118.htm (206 words)

	Verhofstadt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In an exclusive interview in his Brussels office, the boyish looking Verhofstadt tells Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief Jeff Barak that Europe understands there can be no peace agreement without an absolute guarantee of Israel's security and insists that Israelis are wrong to view the EU as biased against Israel.
		Verhofstadt, along with European Commission President Roman Prodi and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, plan to visit the region next week, arriving in Gaza tomorrow night.
		Verhofstadt refused to confirm the EU has proposed running the two jails, which would hold Palestinian terrorists placed on a list jointly agreed upon by Israel and the Palestinian Authority, saying only it is a "possibility." (read more)
	ping.be /~sintlod4/spotlight/fed_reg/verhofstadt/verhofstadt_israel.htm (1020 words)

	Belgian Voters Reelect PM's Coalition (phillyBurbs.com) \| Europe
		But the Greens, Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt's junior coalition partner, suffered a huge defeat in Dutch-speaking Flanders and Wallonia, Belgium's French-speaking southern half.
		The Flemish Bloc continued its recent gains, winning two more seats, while the Greens, Verhofstadt's junior partner in his coalition, lost 13 seats in an unprecedented defeat that was likely to knock it out of the government.
		Verhofstadt said his coalition was ready to continue with economic reforms and tax breaks for four more years.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/89-05192003-92067.html (423 words)

	The Avalon Project : Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks with His Excellency Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium ...
		Secretary Colin L. Powell Remarks with His Excellency Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium (in Capacity of EU Presidency) 2:50 p.m.
		It's been my great pleasure to receive Prime Minister Verhofstadt, who is heading the European Union Presidency until the end of the year, and also High Representative Solana, with whom I have worked closely on a number of issues.
		General Zinni will be here in the State Department tomorrow for consultations, and he remains on the case, on the job, and we will look forward for an opportunity to send General Zinni back to the region to continue to pursue the quest for a cease-fire, negotiations and peace.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/sept_11/powell_brief53.htm (1463 words)

	Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and Secretary Rumsfeld exit after a private meeting.
		Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt and Secretary Rumsfeld exit after a private meeting.
		Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt (left) and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld exit after a private meeting at his office in Brussels, Belgium, on June 8, 2005.
		Rumsfeld is in Belgium to meet with Verhofstadt and attend a NATO conference with his counterparts.
	www.defenselink.mil /photos/Jun2005/050608-F-7203T-130.html (57 words)

	TIME Europe \| Europe: Starting Point \| 12/15/2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After holding out for more rights for smaller current and future E.U. member states at the European Council in Nice, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, 47, was called "a hero for Europe" by his Finnish counterpart, Paavo Lipponen.
		Other European leaders may have felt differently: it was Verhofstadt's stubbornness that pushed what was already the longest European summit ever into the pre-dawn hours of a fifth day.
		That's why I was fighting until the very end on the issue of the weighting of votes in the Council; every new member state should be treated on the same basis as the old ones.
	www.time.com /time/europe/webonly/europe/2000/12/verhofstadt.html (1303 words)

	Patten's Name in Frame for Eu Top Job
		The Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, is still France and...
		The Belgian prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, is still France and Germany's first choice to replace the incumbent, Romano Prodi.
		Tony Blair is currently leading the opposition to Mr Verhofstadt, with the supported of Italy and others, criticising him as too federalist and too anti-American.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/6-17-2004-55579.asp (589 words)

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