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Guy Verhofstadt, the former Prime Minister of Belgium and the European Parliament’s chosen representative in the Brexit talks, has demanded a “common European migration policy” and a “Blue Card” for economic migrants.

European Parliament’s Liberals have promised to tear down walls, in an EU election campaign video depicting the group’s leader smashing through a border fence with his head.

The European Union is pushing for a lengthy extension of Britain’s negotiations for Brexit, pushing exit day well beyond March 29th — and leaving British officials to plan for Britain to participate in the European Parliament elections in May as if nothing has changed.

This year’s EU election will be the “last chance” to kill populism, Guy Verhofstadt has warned, calling for sovereignty-destroying “reform” which would transfer national powers to Brussels. In an interview with five influential establishment newspapers from across the continent on

The European Union’s Brexit coordinator has released a fresh attack on populists he claims are working to destroy Europe, telling viewers they should be proud to call themselves Europeans in the run up to the bloc’s May elections.

The U.S’s ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson has shared a Valentine’s Day poem to woo the country into agreeing a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) after Brexit.

Guy Verhofstadt has called Italy’s President Giuseppe Conte a “puppet” of the populist deputy prime ministers and said the country was suffering from “political degeneration.”

EU bureaucrats have backed plans by opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn that would keep the UK closely aligned to the EU, after refusing to reopen negotiations on the Withdrawal Agreement with Prime Minister Theresa May. President of the European Council Donald

Brexit architect Nigel Farage has said that Brussels bureaucrats are “scared” of a no-deal, clean Brexit because of the cost to European manufacturers and the looming eurozone recession. When asked on Sky News on Wednesday if he were offended by

Hours before British Prime Minister Theresa May is due to travel to Brussels to meet with European Union leaders, the men she will be seeking to win concessions of went public with their determination to see no changes are made.

A senior Eurocrat and the man in charge of negotiating Brexit with the United Kingdom reacted with clear revulsion to the claim that God has a divine plan and that President Donald Trump is part of it on Thursday, saying the suggestion made him feel Atheist.

Brussels bureaucrats have rejected suggestions that the withdrawal agreement with the UK can be renegotiated, while the European Union ramps up preparation for a clean Brexit.

Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt has said Hungary’s billboard campaign mocking the Eurocrat’s claim there is no migrant crisis reminds him of “the darkest days in European history,” and has called for the EU to speed up mechanisms to punish countries like Hungary and Poland for deviating from “European values.”

Senior Brussels figures have expressed their ‘delight’ after French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel backed forming an EU army.

British politician Nigel Farage has said that if U.S. President Donald Trump campaigns for reelection as hard as he did for Republican midterm candidates, he will win in 2020 “by a big margin.”

Senior Eurocrat Guy Verhofstadt has sent a campaign van on a tour of Brussels with a slogan saying that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán “wants to destroy Europe.”

The Hungarian government has released an English-language video taking aim at the “reckless” European Union establishment on mass migration, migrant crime, and terrorism, and vowed to “shake up Brussels”.

The European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator has said he will “never” allow the UK to control its borders, claiming a system based on allowing in professionals and people with the skills the nation needs amounts to “discrimination”.

The European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator has claimed the “chaos” of UK’s exit from the bloc will stem the rise of populist Euroscepticism on the continent and make Europeans ‘attached’ to the Brussels bureaucracy once more.

Nigel Farage has blasted the European Parliament’s chief Brexit coordinator for a “baseless lie” and demanded that he retract claims the former UKIP leader used “Kremlin money” to “deliver Brexit”.

The establishment in Europe must unite to stop “rampant populism” ahead of European Union (EU) Parliament elections next year, Jean-Claude Juncker has said.

The European Commission has announced the political bloc’s latest budget, an increase to €1.25 trillion, and has included a new clause to deny access to funds for states judged to be not “respecting the rule of law”.

It is “not acceptable” for the UK to control immigration after Brexit and throughout the so-called “transition period”, the European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator has said.

Former Liberal Democrat leader and anti-Brexit campaigner Nick Clegg has said the UK will leave the European Union’s (EU) Single Market and Customs Union.

The European Parliament’s Brexit spokesman has told right-wing Hungary and Poland that they must accept liberal values or leave the bloc.

The leader of the Liberal group in the European Parliament has slammed the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs for failing to raise human rights concerns on a trip to Communist Cuba.

As Theresa May prepares to visit Poland and the European Commission prepares to launch sanctions against it, the European Parliament’s chosen Brexit negotiator is demanding the Prime Minister condemn Warsaw to prove Britain’s loyalty to “EU values”.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has hit back at British Prime Minister Theresa May’s handling of Brexit negotiations — in which she has made every concession possible to European Union negotiators while failing to deliver Brexit progress — by calling her “Theresa the Appeaser” and stating she had led the nation to dance “to the EU’s tune”.

Theresa May has said she could withdraw her offer of a massive Brexit ‘divorce bill’ of around £40 billion if the European Union fails to agree on a trade deal with the UK.

The European Parliament’s Brexit coordinator has laid out five further Brexit demands, including two making it easier for migrants to come to the UK after the divorce.

Poland has hit back after the European Parliament voted in support of launching sanctions against it.

The Washington Post is promoting accusations the Hungarian government is “hatemongering” against billionaire open borders activist George Soros – accusations made by groups Soros is funding.

Hungary has taken the gloves off in its ongoing struggle with the EU over the forced redistribution of migrants, taking down European Parliament heavyweight Guy Verhofstadt in a pull-no-punches open letter.

Rumours are swirling that EU leaders may overrule the obstructionist stance of the European Commission and European Parliament on opening trade talks with the United Kingdom at their next Council meeting.

The European Union’s Brexit negotiator has accused Catalonia’s independence referendum of being fixed, in a speech declaring the region’s future lies embedded in a “multicultural, federal Europe”.

Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s chosen representative in the Brexit negotiations, has responded to Prime Minister Theresa May’s concession-filled Florence speech by mocking her for “backstabbing and betrayal”.