CULTURE : THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE' VOTED BOOK OF THE YEAR. From: European Report | Date: December 7, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 Europolitics. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Smiling broadly,aGuy Verhofstadt received, on 5 December in Brussels, the first European Book Prize for his work The United States of Europe', published in December 2005. "This is a boost to the difficult task I have at this moment," joked Belgium's caretaker prime minister, in reference to his return to the national political scene in order to attempt to find a way out of the crisis.

"At the time, I wrote this book against the advice of all my advisors," he recounted. ...