Britain-hating Guy Verhofstadt is one of the most dangerous men in Europe
The nationalist rhetoric from some EU politicians frightens me – the absolutely fanatical desire to build not just a bloc but an empire
In my days in the European Parliament, Verhofstadt was an ever-present figure. He was aggressive, snarling, humourless, profoundly anti-British, and a believer in the creation of a full European super state – whether voters wanted it or not.
The man is an out and out zealot, and this was proved yet again yesterday as he claimed, ludicrously, that the Ukraine war may well not have broken had the UK not left the European Union.
The fact is that Verhofstadt is a nationalist, a militarist and an expansionist. He is one of the most dangerous men in the European Union and his absurd comments did not deserve to be aired. He not only thinks that the United Kingdom should rejoin the European Union, he wants to gobble up many other countries too.
In 2007, Jose Manuel Barroso, then the President of the European Commission, revealed the mindset of the EU’s chiefs when he said “Sometimes I like to compare the EU as a creation to the organisation of empire. We have the dimension of empire.” Nobody quite knows what the limits are of this European “empire”, but Verhofstadt certainly seems to think in these terms too.
I have seen EU nationalism myself. It isn't just the EU’s flag or anthem that worries me.
Neither is my wariness of the EU attributable only to its development of an EU police force and army. It is also the absolutely fanatical desire on the part of those who run the EU to build what they believe will become, in their Walter Mitty minds, the world's next great super state.
Nigel Farage Telegraph 1 February 2023
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/01/britain-hating-guy-verhofstadt-one-dangerous-men-europe/
If you want to understand what is happening to the European Union’s constitution, the EU flag is a good place to start.
European leaders will agree to delete references to the flag in the constitution.
Everybody knows the flags will keep flying.
The words in the constitution will change. But the substance will remain the same.
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times June 12 2007
Verhofstadt: We need only return to the ideas of Europe’s founding fathers: Jean Monnet, Paul-Henri Spaak, Robert Schuman, Alcide de Gasperi, and others.
These leaders had a clear vision of a simpler yet stronger Union, led not by a 28-member commission, but by a real government with 12 ministers.
Guy Verhofstadt Project Syndicate Dec 12, 2018
Wolodarski, Monnet och EUs bristande legitimitet
Englund blogg om DN 4 september 2011
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