Two weeks ahead of the Italian regional elections, around 150 European Liberals will convene for the ELDR Council meeting in Rome to support Italian Liberals of Italia dei Valori and Radicali Italiani. Read more ...

Yesterday, the EU's new High Representative for Foreign Affairs (HR), Catherine Ashton, discussed the proceedings for the establishment of the EU External Action Service (EEAS) with MEPs in the monthly plenary session of the European Parliament. Read more ...

The Social-Liberal D66 was the big winner of the day in the local elections which took place on Wednesday 3 March 2010 in 394 out of the 431 municipalities in the Netherlands. Read more ...

Yesterday, the European Commission published an official version on the so called ‘EU(rope) 2020 Strategy’ which is seen a blueprint for achieving sustainable economic growth in Europe over the next 10 years. Read more ...

One of spring's hottest topics in the European Union will undoubtedly be the so called 'EU(rope) 2020 Strategy', which aims at equipping the EU with necessary tools to confront the extensive challenges that characterize the coming decade. For optimal understanding of the general state of play and relevance, ELDR through this Bulletin provides the essential pros, cons and pitfalls of the issue. Read more ...

Over the past weekend, some 40 liberals gathered in Berlin for a workshop on the Eastern Partnership programme upon invitation from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and co-organised by the ELDR Party and the ALDE groups of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe. Read more ...

At the latest event in the series of "Liberal breakfasts" hosted at the ELDR headquarters, Michael Wohlgemuth from the Walter Eucken Institute for economics discussed the concepts of a free or social market economy – which model for Europe. Read more ...

Last Saturday, the PvdA (social democrats) withdrew their ministers from the coalition government led by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (Christian-Democrat). Read more ...

At a meeting of the European Liberal Democrats parliamentary group in Brussels on 3rd February, Sergey Mitrokhin, Leader of ELDR member party, YABLOKO, called for a strong collaboration amongst liberals in view of the introduction of a visa-free regime between Russia and the European Union. Read more ...

ELDR Vice President Markus Löning and political advisor Daniel Tanahatoe visited Armenia on 2 and 3 February 2010 to meet with representatives of the Armenian National Movement (ANM), a political party which applied for ELDR membership in 2009. While in 1991, after its independence from the Soviet Union, Armenia became a democratic country with some major liberal reforms being implemented, over the last years there has been a growing tendency towards an authoritarian regime with falsified elections, corruption and very close ties between politicians and the business world. Read more ...