At the latest event in the series of "Liberal breakfasts" hosted at the ELDR headquarters, Michael Wohlgemuth from the Walter Eucken Institute for economics discussed the concepts of a free or social market economy – which model for Europe. Read more ...

Last Saturday, the PvdA (social democrats) withdrew their ministers from the coalition government led by Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende (Christian-Democrat). Read more ...

At a meeting of the European Liberal Democrats parliamentary group in Brussels on 3rd February, Sergey Mitrokhin, Leader of ELDR member party, YABLOKO, called for a strong collaboration amongst liberals in view of the introduction of a visa-free regime between Russia and the European Union. Read more ...

ELDR Vice President Markus Löning and political advisor Daniel Tanahatoe visited Armenia on 2 and 3 February 2010 to meet with representatives of the Armenian National Movement (ANM), a political party which applied for ELDR membership in 2009. While in 1991, after its independence from the Soviet Union, Armenia became a democratic country with some major liberal reforms being implemented, over the last years there has been a growing tendency towards an authoritarian regime with falsified elections, corruption and very close ties between politicians and the business world. Read more ...

On Thursday the 11th of February, after years of deliberation, the new EU-US financial data agreement, popularly called SWIFT after the name of the private Belgian company handling the banking transactions of thousands of banks in Europe but also the US and has been a long standing saga on both sides of the Atlantic, is set for plenary vote in Strasbourg. Read more ...

In Tuesday's plenary session in Strasbourg, the European Parliament finally gave the go ahead to the Barroso II Commission by 488 votes in favour to 137 against. European Liberals welcome this new commission that counts eight liberal commissioners who hold important portfolios like international trade, economic and monetary affairs, home affairs and migration, environment, digital agenda; research and development, youth, culture and education, and transport. Read more ...

European Liberals welcome both Greece 's commitment to reduce its budget deficit and the EU Commission's steps to monitor the implementation of the proposed measures. Greece will face the most stringent monitoring as it attempts to balance its finances over the next few years. Read more ...

Russia can only move forward in developing a truly fair, free and democratic society if it puts to bed once and for all the ghosts of its past. This was the conclusion from a seminar organised by the European Liberal Democrat's parliamentary group about "how the Kremlin thinks and what this means for Europe" that took place last Wednesday. Read more ...

More than 500 delegates gathered last Sunday in the Palais des Congrès in Liège, approuving «l'Appel Réformateur» titled Mieux, pour Tous (Better for all). Read more ...