On 23rd-24th May 2008, the Centre Party of Sweden will organise a Nordic-Baltic Sea Regional Conference, in Stockholm, Sweden.The conference will begin on Friday evening with a dinner hosted by Kerstin Lundgren, MP, spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, and Member of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly. Read more ...

 Liberal International (LI), the world network of liberal and democratic parties, met in Belfast from 15-17 May 2008 under the theme “Our Shared Future”, which saw discussions take place about liberal democracy, equal rights and climate change. The Congress also welcomed many new member parties into the international liberal family. Read more ...

 On Thursday 19th June ELDR leaders and ministers will convene in Brussels to discuss the topic of the EU Single Market in the framework of the preparations for drafting the ELDR manifesto for the 2009 European elections. The meeting will be attended by more than 50 prominent liberal politicians, including prime ministers, ministers, European commissioners and party leaders.    See programme Read more ...

 On Thursday 8th May 2008 the Swedish People's Party (Finland) held a successful conference about the future of EU - Russia relations under the title "Integration or fragmentation? Future directions of EU - Russia relations". The conference took place in the framework of the ELDR Political and Information Activities scheme. Read more ...

  On 9th May the ELDR party wants to join in the celebrations for the 51st anniversary of the European Union and reaffirm our strong support to the Lisbon Treaty as an improvement upon the present situation at EU level.ELDR particularly stresses that the Treaty will not replace at all the national constitutions of member states, but it will build a new European dimension, crucial to solving the big challenges of today. Read more ...

 The UK Liberal Democrats with 25% of the share of the votes succeeded to push Labour (24% share) to the third position in the local elections held on 1 May 2008 in parts of England and Wales. Collecting a good performance they will have over 4,200 council seats. The Conservatives achieved 44%. The Liberal Democrats retained control of a number of cities including Cambridge, Liverpool and Newcastle. Liverpool was Labour’s number one target and the council composition is now Lib Dem 46, Labour 39, Liberals* 3, Greens 2 (total 90).  Read more ...