{"id":436274,"date":"2025-09-19T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/436274\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:30:15","slug":"ex-brexit-negotiator-guy-verhofstadt-to-speak-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/436274\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt to speak at\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  GUY Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister and EU political heavyweight, will speak at a pro-EU dinner in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/local-news\/edinburgh-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Edinburgh<\/a>, it has been announced.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One of the most influential European political leaders of recent decades, Verhofstadt will be the keynote speaker at the annual dinner of the European Movement in Scotland on November 1.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Remarking on his forthcoming visit, Guy Verhofstadt hailed \u201cinternationalist\u201d Scotland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cScotland is the most pro-EU part of the UK. Its people understand the value to its trade, security, education, sport and culture of being at the heart of European affairs,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThey are not isolationists but internationalists. They are not fantasists, but realists. They are not afraid of deep democratic cooperation between states but see the clear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25063718.dwp-news-interviews-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">benefits<\/a> of it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I look forward to being in Edinburgh, and I\u2019m delighted that the European Movement in Scotland has invited me to visit a truly great European capital city.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Guy Verhofstadt was prime minister of Belgium between 1999 and 2008, then served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), retiring in 2024.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His many senior roles at the European Parliament included being Brexit coordinator and, for four years, chair of the Brexit Steering Group following the UK\u2019s 2016 EU referendum.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He is president of the European Movement International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GUY Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister and EU political heavyweight, will speak at a pro-EU dinner in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[1500,802,748,4044,2000,299,5187,1699,5686,4884,5681,12,5683,5682,5684,5685,16,15,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-436274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-brexit","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-daily-news","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-global-news","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-inkl","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-news-app","21":"tag-news-headlines","22":"tag-news-today","23":"tag-today-news","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115231445619335680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}