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Guy Verhofstadt
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Prime Minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008
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Guy Verhofstadt is a Belgian politician, author, and jurist born in Dendermonde on April 11, 1953. He is a member of the political party Anders and has served as Prime Minister of Belgium, Member of the European Parliament, and president. Verhofstadt holds Belgian citizenship and speaks Dutch, English, and French. He was educated at Ghent University and works in the fields of politics and liberal democracy.
His professional activities have been based in Strasbourg and Brussels. Verhofstadt has received several honors, including the Order of the Star of Romania, Minister of State, and Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He has two children and a sibling named Dirk Verhofstadt.
As an author, Verhofstadt has published works such as *La quadrature des classes*, *De ziekte van Europa*, *Plaidoyer pour une société ouverte*, *Les Etats-Unis d'Europe*, and *De vierde golf*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 36 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1953
- Works
- 16
Top works
- La quadrature des classes
- De ziekte van Europa
- Plaidoyer pour une société ouverte
- Les Etats-Unis d'Europe
- De vierde golf
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1936-07-30
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 13
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Guy+Verhofstadt">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
· 1984 · cited 21,451x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,904x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,460x
- Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,802x
via Crossref · CC0
~24 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Guy Maurice Marie Louise Verhofstadt ( Dutch: [ˈɣi vərˈɦɔfstɑt] ; French: [ɡi vəʁɔfstad]; born 11 April 1953) is a Belgian politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008. He was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Belgium from 2009 until 2024. Verhofstadt was a member of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives from 1985 to 2009. He served as deputy prime minister of Belgium and minister of Budget from 1985 to 1992. He was the prime minister of Belgium from 1999 to 2008. During this period, he gradually moved away from neoliberalism and became more of a centrist figure.
In the European Parliament, Verhofstadt was the leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) from 2009 to 2019. In 2010, he co-founded the inter-parliamentarian Spinelli Group to support the creation of a European Federation. He was the ALDE Party nominee for President of the European Commission in the 2014 European Parliament election. He served as the European Parliament's Brexit Coordinator and Chair of the Brexit Steering Group from 2016 to 2020.
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