“Now the liberals have to keep being vigilant and continue the good cooperation between the ELDR Party, our prime ministers, commissioners and parliamentary group. Our parties have to remain strong and become strong.” 
“We obtained crucial portfolios in the European Commission that are all of interest for the EU’s development”, Matti Vanhanen, Finnish Prime Minister, commented “The liberal family was the only one that had a common strategy among the liberals in the European Council, ELDR Party and parliamentary group” he concluded. 
Referring to the new institutional framework, Guy Verhofstadt, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Group Leader commented, “The relationship between the parliamentary group and the eight liberal commissioners are even more crucial now that the co-decision procedure has been extended to many other areas (like fisheries, agriculture, budget…).
Siim Kallas, European Commission Vice President and Commissioner for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud also emphasised the way to promote the liberal agenda: “Our commitment now is to find a new model of cooperation between the Commission and Parliament.” Commissioner Kallas added that in the new commission, that is set to take office on 1st February 2010,  there are a lot of areas where promising steps can be taken, such as in foreign affairs and the climate agenda.
Concerning the climate change conference in Copenhagen, Cecilia Malmström, Swedish Minister of European Affairs and Commissioner designate, said: “The most important challenge is to get a politically binding agreement, especially in view of ensuring the average global temperature will not increase by more than 2 degrees.”