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
List of participants Federica Sabbati, Secretary General, ELDR Party, Italy Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, President of ELDR Party, Belgium
Prime Ministers, Commissioners, Ministers and Leaders
Andrus Ansip, Prime Minister of Estonia
Emma Bonino, Vice President of the Italian Senate, I Radicali
Flo Clucas, President ALDE in the Committee of the Regions, United Kingdom
Karel de Gucht, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Belgium
Gjergj Dedaj, Political leader PLK, Liberal Party of Kosova
Antonio Di Pietro, Political Leader Italia dei Valori, Italy
Matyas Eorsi, leader ALDE PACE, Hungary
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
Ivars Godmanis, Prime Minister of Latvia
Gergana Grancharova, Minister for European Affairs of Bulgaria
Oskar Kastens, Minister of Integration, Latvia
Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner, the Netherlands
Meglena Kuneva, European Commissioner, Bulgaria
Praxoulla Kyriacou, acting President United Democrats, Cyprus
Cecilia Malmstrom, Minister for European Affairs of Sweden
Miquel Nadal, Leader Unio Mallorquina, Spain
Francesco Nucara , Segretario Nazionale PRI, Italy
Marco Pannella, leader of I Radicali, Italy
Fulvio Pelli, President FDP/PRD, Switzerland
Albert Pintat, Prime Minister of Andorra
Calin Popescu-Tariceanu, Prime Minister of Romania
Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner, Slovenia
Olli Rehn, European Commissioner, Finland
Aloys Rigaut, President of LYMEC, France
Mark Rutte, Political Leader VVD, the Netherlands
Simeon Saxe Coburg, Leader of NMSS, Bulgaria
Astrid Thors, Minister of Migration and European Affairs, Finland
David Usupashvili, Chairman of Republican Party, Georgia
Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner, Cyprus
Graham Watson, President of the ALDE Group, EP, United Kingdom
Alexander Zach, Political leader LIF, Austria
Arturas Zuokas, Liberal and Centre Union, Lithuania
Other Guests:
Alexander Beels, Secretary General of ALDE, EP, The Netherlands
Sharon Bowles, ELDR Vice President & rapporteur of the meeting, UK
Francis Burstin, International officer, MR, Belgium
Laurent Burton, MR campaign manager, Belgium
Cristina Castagnoli, Cabinet of Commissioner Meglena Kuneva
Edward Davey, MP, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs Spokesman and Chairman of Lib Dem Campaigns and Communications Committee
Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Bonino’s assistant
Andrew Duff, MEP, Liberal Democrats, UK
Anders Flanking, Secretary General, Centre Party, Sweden
David Griffiths, ELDR Treasurer, UK
Emil Kirjas, Secretary General of Liberal International, Macedonia
Srd Kisevic, Secretary General of LYMEC, Croatia
Markus Loning, ELDR Vice President, Germany
Damir Novinic, HSLS economics expert, Croatia
Sean O'curneen, ALDE Secretary General (ALDE in the CoR)
Markus Osterlund, Svenska Folkpartiet, Finland
Gianfranco Polillo, PRI, Italy
Vesna Pusic, ELDR Vice President, Croatia
Bilyana Raeva, MEP, NMSS, Bulgaria
Alison Suttie, Deputy chief of staff office Lib Dems Leader Nick Clegg MP, UK