Commenting on the most urgent priorities that that EU needs to tackle between now and the extraordinary European Parliament plenary session that will take place in Brussels in January, Annemie Neyts MEP, ELDR Party President, highlighted the following issues. Read more ...

Following in the footsteps of ELDR’s Barcelona programme, the Liberal Democrat Group in the European Parliament has sent to the 27 commissioners-designate the priority areas for each commissioner to address over the next 5 year Commission term in view of their hearings before the European Parliament in January.

Annemie Neyts, ELDR Party President, welcoming the liberal leaders at the bi-annual Leaders and Ministers Meeting in Brussels today, expressed her satisfaction with the nominations of the eight liberal commissioners.

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On 28th of November 2009 the 5th extraordinary Congress of the Bulgarian liberal party National Movement for Stability and Progress (NMSP) was held, with a participation of more than 800 delegates from all regions of Bulgaria. Read more ...

Under the aegis of the Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, member of the European liberal family, the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen/ “Hopenaghen” has been inaugurated today. Read more ...

European Liberals mourn the passing of Otto Graf Lambsdorff. He was one of Germany's most outstanding, profiled, upright, and most of all uncompromising Liberals of the past decades. "With Count Lambsdorff's demise, international liberalism loses yet another outstanding personality who embodied the liberal principle of freedom as only few others did", deplores Annemie Neyts, President of the ELDR Party. Otto Graf Lambsdorff stood lifelong firm on the basis of liberalism and translated freedom consequently into all areas of life. Read more ...

ELDR prime ministers, ministers, commissioners and party leaders will gather together on Thursday 10^th December 2009 for the traditional ELDR Leaders and Ministers meeting in advance of the European summit. The meeting will take place at the Conrad Hotel, Avenue Louise 71, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.

Markets are an instrument in the service of economic prosperity, they are not an end in itself. Liberals believe in the benefit of open markets. Socialists and conservatives alike believe that protectionism offers a magic solution to the grave economic crisis. Read more ...

At the latest event in the series of "Liberal breakfasts" hosted at the ELDR headquarters, Gesine Meißner, newly elected MEP of the German liberal party FDP discussed challenges in the transportation sector. Mrs. Meißner outlined the numerous challenges facing the car, aviation, sea, and railroad sector. Read more ...