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EU wastes another opportunity on Syria

EU countries have wasted another opportunity to stop Bashar al-Assad’s killing machine, Guy Verhofstadt said on Saturday following inconclusive talks on the Syria arms embargo by EU foreign ministers in Dublin.

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The EU should not get distracted from the real foreign affairs crisis in Syria

Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE leader, has welcomed news there will be an extraordinary Foreign Affairs Council later this week on the situation in Mali, but deplores the fact the EU has not taken meaningful action on Syria despite 60,000 deaths a…

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Guy Verhofstadt: EU must recognize the Syrian National Coalition

Last weekend the different Syrian opposition groups agreed on uniting their forces into the “Syrian National Coalition of Opposition and Revolutionary Forces. The reaction of almost all opposition people inside and outside Syria was and s…

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Verhofstadt on Syria "Arguments for not intervening are pure nonsense"

The absence of action by the international community to the humanitarian crisis in Syria is a “real scandal”- this was the overriding message today by Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE leader during the debate in the European Parliament with the EU H…

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