Dirk Verhofstadt (born 1955) is a Belgian liberal (Rawlsian) theorist and brother of the Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt. With his book Het menselijk liberalisme (Human Liberalism) he inspires politicians in Belgian liberal parties as well as in the Dutch party Democraten 66. He defends liberalism against attacks by anti-globalists , by stating that liberalism implies/should imply solidarity and that green politics is not contradictory to liberalism. His latest book is named Pleidooi voor het individualisme.
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