Brussels, 16/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - The Liberal candidate to be the next president of the European Commission, Guy Verhofstadt (of Belgium), is calling for “an alternative approach” to policy in Europe after the EU statistical office, Eurostat, published mixed figures for economic growth in Europe in the first quarter of 2014 (see EUROPE 11080).
Verhofstadt, a former prime minister of Belgium, said the official figures show “that the crisis is not over and that a new approach is...