It was Greek journalists - I saw it reported on the Greek news alongside his shares in a company seeking to privatise water supplies in Thessaloniki. If I remember rightly (just did some research for English language reports), he was on the board of a company called Sofina - it is a major shareholder in GDF Suez (now Engie), which operates in the gas and electricity markets in Ukraine.
I think that the Press Project reported that he sat on the board of Sofina first before it hit the media:
Guy Verhofstadt’s membership of the board of the multi-billion Belgian investment firm Sofina is not his only extra-parliamentary source of income. Further investigation reveals that the conservative MEP and aspiring…
www.thepressproject.gr
Guy Verhofstadt’s membership of the board of the multi-billion Belgian investment firm Sofina is not his only extra-parliamentary source of income. Further investigation reveals that the conservative MEP and aspiring…
www.thepressproject.gr
These are Greek-orientated - basically, he harangued Tsipras about privatisations when his company sought to profit. With respect to Ukraine, Engie has operated there for a long time - another conflict of interest.
www.engie.com
www.engie.ua
Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman held a meeting with the chief executive officer of the French company, Engie, Isabelle Kocher. According to the press service of the Ukrainian government, this company provides up to 20% of gas supplies to Ukraine and now its management is exploring...
www.uawire.org
I don't have much time for Russia's actions in Ukraine, either - it has become yet another proxy conflict between powerful countries (no surprise that Ukraine has extensive gas supplies) . On the other side, the pro-Europe government was trying to make things difficult for the Russian-speaking Ukrainians - nobody has clean hands in this. Now, you have some very dodgy people/militias supporting the Ukrainian government (and some equally dodgy people/mercenaries on the other side).
Now, you have a situation where companies in the EU are plundering resources - timber from ancient forests is one I am aware of since the removal of tariffs on lumber, and the EU are pushing Ukraine to sell off land to larger agricultural interests. The other question is whether Ukrainian companies will be able to compete with EU imports without tariffs.
I am also, as I am sure you can understand, wary of loans given by the EU and IMF in return for privatising everything, making the labour marker more 'flexible,' and promoting austerity through cutting vital services. That is what has been happening in Ukraine - along with a brain drain. It's a plan I am, sadly, all too familiar with.
I understand your stout defence of the EU, but Verhofstadt is not the place to make a stand - he is a self-serving, hypocritical shitbag akin to some of the corrupt pondlife in the UK parliament! I don't trust the little fuck's intentions one bit