Liberal leaders yesterday gathered together for the ELDR Prime Ministers Lunch Summit to discuss preparations for the G20 talks in London on 2nd April and called for a real free market instead of stifling the economy with protectionism and for better international coordination in order to ensure a faster economic recovery and to prevent further crises. Read more ...

In advance of the European Summit, the Prime Ministers of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) will meet during a lunch hosted by Karel De Gucht, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Belgium, at 12:00 on Thursday 19th March 2009 in Palais d'Egmont, Petit Sablon 8, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium. Read more ...

The ELDR Bureau welcomes the candidature of liberal leader Zuzana Martinakova in Slovakia's presidential elections on 21 March. Read more ...

On 11th March, the same day as the 50th Anniversary of the Lhasa Uprising and the Dalai Lama's escape to India, the European Parliament adopted, at the initiative of Marco Cappato MEP, Radicali Italiani (ELDR member party), a resolution that calls for clear action to protect the rights of Tibetan people. Read more ...

Liberals have recorded another significant achievement in the fight to ensure civil rights and liberties in the Balkans. Annemie Neyts MEP, President of the ELDR Party, Belgium, was the author of the European Parliament’s report on the Hague Tribunal, which was adopted yesterday by the Assembly with 558 votes in favour. The report calls on the ICTY mandate to be extended for a further two years. Read more ...

Annemie Neyts, ELDR Party President; ALDE MEPs; liberal leaders representing almost all liberal parties from the countries of the Western Balkans and Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn participated at the ALDE Bureau meeting, which took place from 4 - 6 March 2009 in Bled, Slovenia. Read more ...

Nick Clegg MP, Leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, has stated that his party is best placed to steer the UK out of recession and has urged the British public to take a "leap of faith" and vote liberal. Read more ...

Believing in the power of freedom and the protection of individual rights is at the centre of liberal convictions. Read more ...

ELDR vice-president Kristiina Ojuland MP met with Slovakian presidential candidate and Free Forum party leader Zuzana Martinakova in Slovakia's capital Bratislava on Saturday 28 February. Read more ...

The delegates of the civic-liberal party LIGA (League) have elected former Slovak Minister of Economy Robert Nemcsics as their party leader. Read more ...

With the key input of ELDR's prime ministers: Matti Vanhanen, Finland, Andrus Ansip, Estonia and Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark (in the picture with Barroso) EU leaders have defused the floating mines of protectionism during an emergency summit that took place in Brussels on Sunday 1st March. Read more ...