Sunday 3 May in Leuven Guy Verhofstadt presented his most recent book: “De weg uit de crisis. Hoe Europa de wereld kan redden” (The way out of the crisis. How Europe can save the world). The only way we can get out of this crisis, is for European countries to work together, states the former...

2008 is the year in which China organised the Olympic Games, Russia re-claimed its role as superpower by invading Georgia and the financial crisis broke out and turned out to be at least as important as the crisis of the thirties of the previous century. Verhofstadt believes 2008 to be a key...

After World War II Europe underwent a historical turnover that changed the prospect of our continent. The European battlefield first transformed into a European Community before becoming a proper Union. For a long time it seemed as if there would be no end to the European success story. But in...

In his fourth citizen’s manifesto Guy Verhofstadt shows us the path to follow in the coming years. Not to let fear paralyze us, but to have faith in the future and to build an open society. That is the essence of his plea.

Guy Verhofstadt entered the twenty-first century as the leader of his “purple-green” government. During the elections of 2003 the voters chose manifestly for a continuation of the conducted policies and the “purple” government Verhofstadt II was born. Guy Verhofstadt remained Prime Minister...

In 1997 Guy Verhofstadt was again party leader of the VLD. In that position he was perfectly prepared for the parliamentary elections of June 1999. This time the victory for the liberal and the green parties and the defeat for the Christian Democrats and Socialists was so big, that no one could get...

Furthermore, of great importance for his political comeback was his very active participation – as a reporter – in the Rwanda commission that had been installed in 1996 by the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee in the light of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. As a member of the commission Guy...

A lecture for the non-profit organisation Futura in May 1996, one year after the elections of 1995, confirmed his return to active politics. According to Knack (a weekly political magazine) it concerned the “fourth citizen’s manifesto" of the "more mature Verhofstadt" that had not renounced any...

The period in the opposition for the PVV and the VLD lasted longer than the renewers had hoped for in 1992. After the European elections and the local elections of 1994, which turned out positively for the VLD, Guy Verhofstadt placed all his hope in the parliamentary elections of 1995. Heading the...