Guy Verhofstadt
@guyverhofstadt
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President of European Movement International. #IAmEuropean🇪🇺
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Joined October 2012
“Just tell us what Vladimir has on you. Maybe we can help.”
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Your strategy of incremental sanctions doesn’t work. Cannot work…. That’s why 212 members of Parliament demand a special #EUCO meeting to decide on full sanctions immediately! . My speech👇🏻
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But I thought that foreigners stealing British jobs was one of the reasons you wanted Brexit?.
“We want you back”. PM Boris Johnson invites European workers who left the UK as lockdown began to return now it is being eased and retail sector is reopening.
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Britain is broken…says the man who is responsible for it…
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I have a dream. Ukraine & Britain joining the EU in the next 5 years. Who's in? 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇬🇧
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I’m surprised to see you here, Mr. Farage. I thought you were marching 200 miles for the leave campaign? How many did you do? 2 miles! You remind me more & more of Field Marshal Haig in Blackadder, sitting safely in his office, while his people are walking in the cold & the rain.
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BREAKING - European Parliament want immediate and full fossil fuel embargo !. No gas, no oil, no coal… . NO European money for Putin’s army !. 🛑
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The EU member states should grant UK citizens living in Europe the full rights as they have today. Automatically. No ‘ifs and buts’ here either. Let's also come back to the idea of ‘European associated citizenship’ for UK citizens who want to keep their link with Europe.
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Boris Johnson's reign ends in disgrace, just like his friend Donald Trump. The end of an era of transatlantic populism? Let's hope so. EU - UK relations suffered hugely with Johnson's choice of Brexit. Things can only get better! 🇪🇺🇬🇧.
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Nigel Farage has been an elected MEP since 1999, but now says he comes out of "semi – retirement". As I already warned in 2012, the biggest waste of EU resources is Nigel Farage's salary. Why would anyone re-elect him to this role?
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You’re all thinking: another extension. I am thinking: another three weeks listening to Farage
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Hi @KateHoeyMP, thanks for the feedback. Actually, I was elected by my constituents with over 500k votes. Imagine an elected MP campaigning on Europe, not knowing that MEPs are elected?
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Gunboats to protect fish!. Is this really what people voted for? We are your allies and partners, not your enemies!.
Four armed Royal Navy gunboats have been put on standby to guard British waters from EU trawlers – if there’s no deal on fishing rights by the end of the year.
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I don't remember seeing this on the side of a bus 🤔
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At least one big relief in the Brexit saga: the rule of law in the UK is alive & kicking. Parliaments should never be silenced in a real democracy. I never want to hear Boris Johnson or any other Brexiteer say again that the European Union is undemocratic.
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Incredible… Putin’s henchmen helped Musk to acquire Twitter. That explains a lot: the position of Musk on Crimea… the refusal at some point to let Ukraine use Starlink… the support for Trump…. Time for the US to wake up !.
Elon Musk has complied after all and provided a list of X Holding Corp shareholders who helped the billionaire buy Twitter. And who do you think turned out to be the investors of the X platform? That's right, Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich. Now it is absolutely obvious where Musk
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BREAKING — Parliament refuses discharge of the Council budget until European Council decided to support Ukraine with additional Patriot anti-missile systems !
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John #Bercow is a driven speaker and gifted orator but above all the keeper of the great British parliamentary tradition. I would love if we could welcome him in the European Commission or European Parliament 😉
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If the German Chancellor is incapable of taking the right decisions, Poland must now lead a coalition of the willing to send the heavy tanks that Ukraine needs! #Ramstein #FreeTheLeopards .
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Impressive figure… and very indicative of the country’s mood. Brexit had failed everyone. Time to rejoin !. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
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This kind of reporting led to Brexit. Even if it rains in the UK the EU is blamed for it by the British tabloids.
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We will look after your star & work to ensure the EU is a project you'll want to be a part of again soon! 🇪🇺❤🇬🇧
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BREAKING: European Parliament approves massively the candidate status of Ukraine and Moldova as member of the European Union !
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This is what happens when you protect refugees. Welcome to Belgium, little girl ! . Wonderful @Reuters picture via @POLITICOEurope
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Great result from @PM_ViktorOrban ‘s peace mission: Putin bombs a children’s hospital… the most horrid attack of the whole war. Putin knows no peace, only submission… and Orbán is the willing accomplice.
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Conservative party donors, backing Brexit but at the same time seeking EU citizenship via Cyprus. Pardon my French but ordinary British citizens are being screwed over by their elite.
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The mask slips. These are Kremlin talking points. In the European Parliament, Farage always defended Putin. Every vote for Farage is celebrated in Moscow!.
West provoked Ukraine war, Nigel Farage says
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Removing rights and denying opportunities is not progress. #IamEuropean.
💬 Home Secretary @PritiPatel: "Last year the British people sent a clear message that they wanted to end free movement and our landmark Immigration Bill delivers exactly that."
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Scoop! Britain is the first country in world history to open up by pulling up the drawbridge! The sad reality behind this newspeak: less freedoms & opportunities for continental Europeans and British people alike. Everyone loses.
We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world. It will ensure people can come to our country based on what they have to offer, not where they come from.
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The 1970's brain drain is back…says the man who is responsible for it!
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Polls show British voters regret Brexit & want a European future. Yet no opposition party dare represent them & the next Tory Government will be the most eurosceptic yet. Britain needs a pro European renaissance!
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Johnson's comparaison of the courageous fight of Ukraine with Brexit is insane…. Brexit was about undoing freedoms and leaving the EU…Ukrainians want more freedom and to join the EU!.
Words fail me that this loathsome man actually just compared the Ukrainian people's current quest for freedom to the UK voting for Brexit. Just when you thought he couldn't sink to new depths 👇
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Nigel Farage’s salary is the biggest waste of money in the European Union: his only objective is to destroy it from within! Sending him back to Brussels would be insane. Here’s three times I told him the truth 👇 💥
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Following the Cummings saga in the UK, this is spot on.
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I ask @MichelBarnier to unilaterally extend Eramus to UK students after #Brexit. They love Europe, they all want the UK back into the European family. Let's not make them the victims of a Brexit they didn’t choose ! 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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It was a sad day, but singing together with all my colleagues in the Parliament together with our British friends was a beautiful goodbye. We will miss you!.
Singing of Auld Lang Syne starts in the European Parliament as the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement is approved by MEPs.
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There is only one good response to the outcome of the American elections … . MEGA …. Make Europe Great Again ! 🇪🇺
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Russians paying tribute to Navalny… showing more courage in 5 minutes than EU politicians in the last 2 years…
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Opposing a no deal is not "surrender". This is the language of Europe's dark past. It implies Britain's European allies & neighbours are enemies. I refuse to believe the majority of British people think this is the case.
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How's Brexit going? One thing is for sure: the mess didn’t start in 2022 but in 2016. But Britain is always welcome back! 🇪🇺🇬🇧.
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After the massacre of #Dnipro, 112 MEP’s request to change strategy and to launch, with the transfer of tanks and long-range missiles, the full set of sanctions against Russia immediately !
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Russia is no longer a normal country. It is a terrorist state, denying the existence of its neighbours and the basic freedoms of its own citizens. Don’t normalise that in any way. Let’s ban Russia from international sporting events !
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Nigel Farage facing some stiff competition as chief clown of the Brexit Party in the @Europarl_EN. By the way, when Widdecombe talks about “colonies liberating themselves from their empires”, is she really referring to the American Revolution of 1776?
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Russian trolls and far-right populists will go after anything to bring our democracies to their knees… Don’t fall for it !.Keep dancing @MarinSanna and keep fighting Putin !.
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Exactly 50 years after its first entry in the European union, a nearly two thirds majority of citizens in the UK want a new referendum to rejoin !.
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If we had known in advance that blue was so important to the UK, we could simply have replaced our passports by this one 😊
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I look forward to the day that the UK will rejoin the EU. Brexit has proved a disaster for Britain and for Europe !. Let’s shape a vision of a common future… starting today ! #RejoinEU. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
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Well, I doubt Lucifer would welcome them, as after what they did to Britain, they would even manage to divide hell 🙂.
I've been wondering what that special place in hell looks like, for those who promoted #Brexit, without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it out safely.
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America is back where it should be: Supporting Freedom. But I will for my life never forget that in the Republican group - the party of Reagan - a majority of 112 traitors voted against ! #StandWithUkraine
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Trump is clear: he will let Putin win. Europe is totally unprepared for what will happen if Trump wins….
The US will "withdraw" from the war in Ukraine if I become president - trump. This guy here, who is acting like a stupid 14 year old teenager, will leave Ukraine and Europe alone - and Europe has done nothing for this case so far.
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As I have always said, one day a politician will bring Britain back home to where it belongs - at the centre of our common European destiny! 🇪🇺🇬🇧
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Brexit set to cost British citizens almost more than 47 years of payments to the EU budget by the end of this year. 🇪🇺🇬🇧. The real costs are the uncertainty & loss of opportunities for all Europeans, which could still be incalculable. #IamEuropean
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Capitol Hill during Black Lives Matter v. Capitol Hill today. No words needed.
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No democracy should accept it's Parliament being shut down against its will, at a time when debate & scrutiny are needed more than ever. Full support to the thousands who have marched!.
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"Taking back control" has never looked so sinister. As a fellow parliamentarian, my solidarity with those fighting for their voices to be heard. Suppressing debate on profound choices is unlikely to help deliver a stable future EU - UK relationship.
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My ‘final’ word on Brexit👇🏻.Democracy is a way to start anew, time and again. To change your mind, when facts change. Young generations will eventually find their way back to Europe. 🇪🇺🇬🇧.
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Wishing you & your families all the best for 2020. The light of liberal democracy has dimmed this decade, but in 2019, we saw a fight back against those who want to remove freedoms. Let's build on this hope & work for a brighter decade! #NewYear
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Farage is a long sitting, career MEP in Brussels, with one of the lowest attendance rates. He would rather sign in & go to the pub than fight for British interests in Europe. Sending him back would be insane!.
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Ukrainian people ask for EU membership, they reject the tyranny & violence of Putin's regime. Tomorrow, the European Parliament will ask that #Ukraine is declared a candidate country. 🇺🇦🇪🇺 #StandWithUkraine
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Germany just announced it will deliver an additional Patriot system to Ukraine. Good… still 6 to go !. Come on Greece, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Romania !
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UK doesn't do its part to for Ukrainians, now wants to send desperate refugees to Rwanda!. Anything to deflect from those lockdown parties. Britain is a warning to France and other European countries of where populist Government's lead to.
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After Russia's terror attack today, let’s give up on incremental sanctions & go for one set:. - against all western companies & individuals who deal with Russia;.- Navalny's list of 6.700 Putin cronies;.- Send the frozen €300 billion of Russian Central Bank directly to Ukraine!
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Finally someone dares to state the obvious !. Sadiq Khan is absolutely right: Brexit doesn’t work, cannot work, never will. Time to rejoin ! . 🇬🇧🇪🇺.
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In London today… with thousands and thousands to call for the return of the UK into the EU after the Brexit disaster !. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
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If you tell people migration is why they lack opportunity, this is the result. Bad governance, inequality & unregulated social media have a lot to answer for. Silence from Farage & the Tory hard right who blew the dogwhistle for years.
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I can’t follow anymore. After two years of negotiations, the Tory government wants to delay the vote. Just keep in mind that we will never let the Irish down. This delay will further aggravate the uncertainty for people & businesses. It’s time they make up their mind! #brexit.
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EU has reached the point of no return: Hungary blocking Ukraine again… and soon in the presidency chair to block everything. We need to finally use Art. 7 and take away Orbán's voting rights… and extortion power !.
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The approach of the German Chancellor makes no sense. France & Britain send tanks, but now Germany wants to set conditions on 🇺🇸?!. It's our backyard. Ukraine defends 🇪🇺 from a genocidal dictator, with its own blood. Enough! #FreeTheLeopards .
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Biden is right. Boris Johnson might not care about international law or the Good Friday Agreement, but there are many who do! The world is watching with disbelief.
We can’t allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit. Any trade deal between the U.S. and U.K. must be contingent upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period.
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In 1988, Margaret Thatcher proudly declared that the barriers to trade in Europe were coming down. In 2020, the same party is putting the barriers back up. Progress can never be taken for granted!.
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Taxes up 📈.Pay down 🔻.An economy 5.5% smaller. all thanks to #Brexit. Is this the future British people voted for? or was Brexit a con?.
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Instead of throwing dead fish in the Thames, Nigel Farage should have done his job as a member of the fisheries committee in the European Parliament, as I told him already years ago! .
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One of the few silver linings of Brexit is Farage no longer has a platform to spread his vitriol. Glad Londoners have said enough is enough! 👋🇪🇺🇬🇧.
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Europeans need to be frank: The "free world" will be led by a convicted felon & demagogue who doesn’t share our values but wants to destroy them. Liberal democracy is in peril. Is Europe prepared? No. Can it be & will we see real 🇪🇺 .leadership we desperately need ? Hopefully!
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The real threats to the integrity of the UK are you Boris Johnson and your Brexit!. It was your choice to choose the hardest possible exit. Why did you not explain the consequences of your plan to the British people?
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Unelected bureaucrats. Unrealistic ideologues. There's so much irony to the Cummings story. But one thing's for sure. the legacy called Brexit is damage that unfortunately will not be undone for years.
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Europe doesn’t need your hollow slogans or your brand of tech oligarchy. 🇪🇺 must be defended from nationalist populism and profiteers who undermine democracy, or risk losing the solidarity and progress that make Europe truly great!
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Let's unite against the populists who want to destroy Europe! Let's be proud to say "I am European"! 🇪🇺
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It’s criminal not to deliver additional air-defense and it’s even more criminal not to allow Ukraine to strike military targets in Russia ! . How many civilians have to die before Western leaders change course !
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We forgot what borders look like. Some thought they would remain open with or without the EU. They will now start to understand what leaving the EU really means. .
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One strong leader fighting for democracy, one coward destroying it. We can't let Orbán destroy European integration. Time for #EUCO to remove his voting rights.
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🛑BREAKING: The European Parliament adopts a resolution declaring Russia a terrorist state. Putin's regime is a state sponsor of terrorism, complicit in war crimes & must face the international consequences.
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Farage portrait unsold: my trust in the taste of the British people is greater than ever 😉
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Massive rally in Moldova….This is what Europe means to freedom-loving people !.🇲🇩 🇪🇺
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Relieved that finally no one died in a ditch. Whether the UK's democratic choice is revoke or an orderly withdraw, confirmed or not in a second referendum, the uncertainty of Brexit has gone on for far too long. This extra time must deliver a way forward.
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If only we had an influential German with a defence background as EU leader to talk sense to Berlin… 🤔. Ukraine needs tanks and we need Ukraine to win !. Where is the EU ?!.
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Elon Musk legitimised a convicted racist & now says civil war in UK is "inevitable". Urgent need for a deep examination of the role of social media in the proliferation of political extremism & misinformation in EU & UK! @ThierryBreton
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Sir Winston Churchill was a founding father of the European Union, convinced that only a united Europe could guarantee peace. He would surely be stunned about the state of today's Conservative party.
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Yes @RishiSunak privileged access to the EU single market is unbelievably exciting… and ALL Brits deserve to regain it some day soon !. #rejoin. 🇬🇧 🇪🇺.
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This rings an alarm bell. If a Belgian Professor who has given 20 years of his professional career to the benefit of the UK is struggling to be accepted for "settled status", we may have a problem. Unacceptable.
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Kyiv is under brutal attack! 99 missiles fired by Russia at civilians. No alternative for the EU than to step up support for Ukraine now. Militarily, financially. Putin is at war with the European way of life that Ukraine defends. Wake up, Europe!
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When Europe is under threat, always remember: . Those who talk about our sovereignty are always the first the sell it off !
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Brexit will now happen. The British people have confirmed their referendum decision of 2016. The EU must now focus on building a new close, fair and lasting partnership with Britain. It is in our common interest.
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After Scholz's phone call, Putin responds with 120 missiles & 90 drones against Ukraine. Instead of weak phone calls, it would be better to provide the longe distance missiles & bombs desperately needed !
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