More than 1000 registered participants, featuring 85 election candidates, 24 VIPs speaking on the stage, around 100 journalists from across Europe, including 10 TV stations.

It's a unique occasion to meet and mingle with liberal party leaders, MEPs and MPs, election candidates.

The ELDR campaign launch is an evening for us to celebrate our progress as a European party, our success and to promote our candidates and policies for the European elections in June.  Even more, it is a chance to build national liberal campaigns around a strong European party, which represents more than 30 million liberal democrat voters across Europe!

Amongst the VIPs of this evening:

Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, ELDR Party President and Open VLD candidate

Didier Reynders Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Institutional Reforms of the Belgian government

Bart Somers member of the Belgian Parliament and leader of Open VLD

Matti Vanhanen Prime Minister of Finland

Meglena Kuneva European Commissioner for Consumer Protection

Aloys Rigaut President of ELDR's youth organisation, LYMEC

Graham Watson leader of the ALDE parliamentary group

Louis Michel European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid and head of MR list for the European elections

Guy Verhofstadt former Prime Minister of Belgium and head of Open VLD's list for the EU elections

Pat Cox President of the European Movement International and a former President of the European Parliament

Anne Jensen ALDE MEP, Denmark

Katarina Kresal leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Slovenia and Minister of the Interior in the Slovenian Government

Leoluca Orlando MP for Italia dei Valori

Silvana Koch-Mehrin Vice-Chairwoman of the ALDE group and head of the FDP list in Germany

Sharon Bowles ALDE MEP, UK and ELDR vice president, head of Liberal Democrats EU list in the South East of England

Ramon Tremosa head of list for Convergència Democràtica.

Emma Bonino Vice President of the Italian Senate and a former European Commissioner

Chris Davies ALDE MEP, UK and head of list of Liberal Democrats EU list in the North West of England

Lena Ek, ALDE MEP Sweden and ELDR vice president.

Ivo Thijssen president of the D66 European Affairs committee

Hans van Baalen MP, The Netherlands and Deputy President of Liberal International, top candidate for the VVD

Istvan Szent-Ivanyi ALDE MEP Hungary

Kristiina Ojuland MP Estonia and ELDR vice president, top candidate for the Reform Party

Alexander Graf Lambsdorff ALDE MEP Germany and President of the European Liberal Forum, FDP candidate