Guy Verhofstadt is the Prime Minister of Belgium. His first government in 1999 was a coalition between his Flemish Liberal and Democrat Party (VLD) party and five other Liberal, Socialist and Green parties. Verhofstadt was the first Liberal Prime...

Guy VerhofstadtPrime Minister (pronounced "GEE fer-HOFE-stott") "This country must function better and rebuild its image in the world." The Kingdom of Belgium lies in the northwest corner of Europe and shares borders...

Guy Verhofstadt (help·info) (IPA: [ʝi: vəɾˈɦɔfstɑt]) (b. Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt, April 11, 1953, in Dendermonde, Belgium) is a Belgian politician, municipal councilor in Ghent and current Prime Minister of Belgium. if...

Belgium's troubled presidency of the European Union THE European Union summit in Ghent on October 19th should have been a triumphal moment for Guy Verhofstadt, Belgium's prime minister. His country currently holds the EU's six-month presidency and Ghent is where Mr Verhofstadt...

Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt has definite views about the EU's future As one of the six founding members of the European Union, Belgium has assumed the six-month presidency of the Council of Ministers on many occasions since the 1957 creation of the...

Outgoing Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said Monday he will seek to end the deadlock in government negotiations between the country's Dutch-speaking and Francophone parties, six months after suffering electoral defeat.King Albert asked the Dutch-speaking Liberal to end the record-length stalemate in coalition talks because parties...

A Belgian judge on Monday ruled King Albert II's youngest son can be called to testify as a witness in the fraud trial of 12 people accused of pocketing some $2.9 million allegedly siphoned from the navy's budget.Several of the defendants have alleged that 43-year-old...