Guy Verhofstadt

A Brussels politician has recommended Boris Johnson “pay for EU workers to stay” in the UK in a direct swipe at the government’s voluntary scheme to repatriate them. Former Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt said it was Britain’s “loss” and the EU’s “gain” after hearing about a scheme by the Home Office to pay EU nationals to voluntarily return […]

Guy Verhofstadt on his sadness as the transition period ends, and his optimism for the future. “There is one case,” wrote Dostoevsky, “and only one, when a man may deliberately and consciously desire something that is downright harmful even stupid, even extremely stupid, and that is: to have the right to desire what is even extremely […]

A leading EU politician has taken a swipe at Boris Johnson and fellow Brexiteers by saying that Britain will rejoin the “European family” in a few decades during a passionate speech in the European parliament. Guy Verhofstadt, who served as the EU’s Brexit coodinator, said it would be the “students of Britain” who would eventually bring the […]

A prominent MEP has suggested a Brexit trade deal was still possible and could happen “at the end” of December. Guy Verhofstadt said he was “optimistic” a deal between Britain and the EU could be struck at the last moment. Verhofstadt told Sky News: “I’m optimistic by nature. It happens always at the end. “If […]