The European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt | Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images Brexit Files Insight Parliament’s Brexit man has his wings clipped Guy Verhofstadt forced to share power.

The European Parliament may have found a way to rein in Guy Verhofstadt, its flamboyant, Euro-fanatic Brexit “coordinator.”

In what one parliamentary official called a move to “clip Verhofstadt’s wings,” the Parliament’s powerful decision-making Conference of Presidents has decided he’ll have to share what power he has with an informal “steering committee” of other prominent parliamentarians: Veteran German MEP Elmar Brok of the dominant center-right European People’s Party (EPP), his EPP colleague Danuta Hübner who chairs the influential Constitutional Affairs Committee, Roberto Gualtieri of the Socialists, leftist Gabriele Zimmer and the Greens’ Philippe Lamberts.

Verhofstadt will also be flanked by two “lead representatives” — Brok and Gualtieri — in sherpa meetings, where sensitive discussions and political decisions on Brexit will be made.

Although all these MEPs have already been working on Brexit and helped draft the Parliament’s Brexit resolution, formalizing their Brexit work threatens to steal some of the limelight from the man known as “The Hof.”

“He has a very lofty idea of the EU,” the official said. “So now he’s going to be more under the control of political groups.” Although he is widely seen as the right man for the job, he has irritated many MEPs with his federalist diatribes, his attempt to build incongruous alliances such as a proposed partnership with the Euroskeptic Italian 5Star Movement, and some eccentric ideas like creating an “associate citizenship” for U.K nationals living in the EU. “He has a huge ego,” said another Parliament official.

Some in the European Conservatives and Reformists group — home of the British Tories — also complained that Verhofstadt, who was appointed Brexit coordinator for the Parliament last year, didn’t consult them on the assembly’s Brexit resolution.

At a recent meeting of the Conference of Presidents, leaders of the parliamentary groups tried to contain Verhofstadt’s ego. One told him he couldn’t speak first during this week’s Brexit debate in Strasbourg, but would take the floor after Manfred Weber of the EPP, Gianni Pittella of the S&D and Syed Kamall, the Brexit-supporting leader of the ECR group. According to two individuals familiar with the discussions, Esteban González Pons, who was standing in for Weber, reminded Verhofstadt that he was only the Brexit “coordinator.”

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