ALDE Leaders Meet Ahead of the Informal Meeting of the 27 Heads of State Or Government: Arrivals and Statements

ALDE leaders meet ahead of the Informal meeting of the 27 heads of state or government: arrivals and statements

Reference: I-151261 Duration: 00:02:40 Location: Brussels Date: Feb 23, 2018 Type: EbS PreEdited

Background:

At the invitation of ALDE Party President Hans van Baalen MEP and Guy Verhofstadt MEP, leader of the ALDE Group in the European Parliament; ALDE Prime Ministers and European Commissioners met today at the Sofitel Hotel in Brussels ahead of the European Council Summit.

Summary:

Ahead of the Informal meeting of the 27 heads of state or government, ALDE leaders meet at Sofitel Hotel in Brussels. Arrivals of Guy VERHOFSTADT, Vĕra JOUROVA, Member of the EC in charge of Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, Miro CERAR, Slovenian Prime Minister, Mark RUTTE, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Charles MICHEL, Belgian Prime Minister, Xavier BETTEL, Prime Minister of Luxembourg, Andrej BABIS, Czech Prime Minister, Lars Løkke RASMUSSEN, Danish Prime Minister, Margrethe VESTAGER, Member of the EC in charge of Competition, and Jüri RATAS, Estonian Prime Minister. Statements by Johannes Cornelis van BAALEN (ALDE, NL).

Only the original language version is authentic and it prevails in the event of its differing from the translated versions.

TIME DESCRIPTION DURATION

00:00:00 Title 00:00:05

00:00:05 Exterior shot Sofitel hotel in Brussels. 00:00:05

00:00:10 ALDE logo 00:00:05

Arrival of Guy Verhofstadt MEP, leader of the ALDE Group in the European Parliament, welcomed by ALDE Party 00:00:15 00:00:05 President Hans van Baalen.

Vĕra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, 00:00:20 00:00:06 Consumers and Gender Equality

00:00:26 Miro Cerar, Prime Minister of Slovenia (2 shots) 00:00:14

00:00:40 Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 00:00:10

00:00:50 Charles Michel, Prime Minister of Belgium 00:00:10

00:01:00 Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg 00:00:10

00:01:10 Andrej Babiš, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic 00:00:10

00:01:20 Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark 00:00:07

Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for 00:01:27 00:00:10 Competition

00:01:37 Jüri Ratas, Prime Minister of Estonia 00:00:06

00:01:43 Round table meeting (2 shots) 00:00:09

SOUNDBITE (English), Johannes Cornelis van BAALEN (ALDE, NL), ALDE Party President ,

We are now looking on how the (European) Parliament will be composed, the Spitzenkandidat, transnational lists, the 00:01:52 British votes, where do they go to... But much more is of 00:00:25 course what kind of Europe we want. You know the plans of Macron, you know other plans... it’s about the economy, it’s about security, so more or less everything is on the table, everything related to the future of Europe.

SOUNDBITE (English), Johannes Cornelis van BAALEN (ALDE, NL), ALDE Party President (on the Spitzenkandidat - leading candidates process) The fact is that it has to be decided by those who want to become leading candidates. 00:02:17 00:00:18 We have a democratic process in the ALDE party, so there is a real election and there is a real campaign, so at this moment we don't know who will run but we hope that there is more than one, that we have a real competition.

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