Guy Verhofstadt attacks EU-27 over treatment of UK citizens in Brexit negotiations

Guy Verhofstadt outside 10 Downing Street on a visit to London earlier this year. 
Guy Verhofstadt outside 10 Downing Street on a visit to London earlier this year.  Credit: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament’s Brexit chief, has attacked EU-27 countries for neglecting residency procedures for the more than a million British citizens living in the bloc.

Mr Verhofstadt criticised the majority of the remaining 27 member states, which he accused of not making proper arrangements from the 1.24 million expat Britons in the EU.

“I am far from happy concerning the treatment of UK citizens in the EU27,” the former prime minister of Belgian said in a speech in Vienna.

“Most member states have not yet started the process and many have not yet determined the procedures. We will remain very vigilant on this issue,” he said at the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency in the Austrian...

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