Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party


The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party is a European political party composed of 60 national-level liberal parties from across Europe, mainly active in the European Union. On 26 March 1976, it was founded in Stuttgart as a confederation of national political parties under the name Federation of Liberal and Democrat Parties in Europe and renamed European Liberals and Democrats in 1977 and European Liberal Democrats and Reformists in 1986. On 30 April 2004, the ELDR was reformed as an official European party, the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. The ALDE Party is affiliated with the Liberal International and a recognised European political party, incorporated as a non-profit association under Belgian law.
On 10 November 2012, the party chose its current name of ALDE Party, taken from its then-European Parliament group, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, which had been formed on 20 July 2004 in conjunction with the European Democratic Party. Prior to the 2004 European election the European party had been represented through its own group, the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party Group. In June 2019, the ALDE group was succeeded by Renew Europe.
, ALDE is represented in European Union institutions, with 65 MEPs and five members of the European Commission. Of the 27 EU member states, there are six with ALDE-affiliated Prime Ministers: Mark Rutte in the Netherlands, Xavier Bettel in Luxembourg, Jüri Ratas in Estonia, Andrej Babiš in the Czech Republic, Sophie Wilmès in Belgium and Micheál Martin in Ireland. ALDE member parties are also in governments in four other EU member states: Croatia, Finland, Latvia and Slovenia. Some other ALDE member parties offer parliamentary support to governments in Croatia, Denmark, Italy, Romania and Sweden. Charles Michel, former Belgian Prime Minister, is current President of the European Council.
ALDE's think tank is the European Liberal Forum. The youth wing of ALDE is the European Liberal Youth, which is predominantly based upon youth and student liberal organisations but contains also a small number of individual members. LYMEC is led by Antoaneta Asenova of Bulgaria, and counts 200,000 members.

Structure

Bureau

The day-to-day management of the ALDE Party is handled by the Bureau, the members of which are:

Presidents

Pan-European liberalism has a long history dating back to the foundation of Liberal International in April 1947. On 26 March 1976, the Federation of Liberal and Democrat Parties in Europe was established in Stuttgart. The founding parties of the federation were the Free Democratic Party of Germany, Radical Party of France, Liberal Party of Denmark, Italian Liberal Party, Dutch People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and Democratic Party of Luxembourg. Observer members joining later in 1976 were the Danish Social Liberal Party, French Radical Party of the Left and Independent Republicans, British Liberal Party, and Italian Republican Party. In 1977, the federation was renamed European Liberals and Democrats, in 1986, European Liberal Democrats and Reformists.
It evolved into the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party in 2004, when it was founded as an official European party under that name and incorporated under Belgian law at an extraordinary Congress in Brussels, held on 30 April 2004 the day before the enlargement of the European Union. At the same time the matching group in the European Parliament, the European Liberal Democrats and Reformists Group allied with the members of the newly elected European Democratic Party, forming the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe with a matching ALDE Group in the European Parliament.
On 10 November 2012, the ELDR Party adopted the name of the alliance between the two parties, to match the parliamentary group and the alliance.
On 12 June 2019, the ALDE group was succeeded by a new enlarged group, Renew Europe, which primarly consists of ALDE and EDP member parties and France's La République En Marche!.

European Council

European Commissioners

ALDE Member Parties contribute four out of the 28 members of the European Commission:
StateCommissionerPortfolioPolitical partyPhoto
DenmarkMargrethe VestagerA Europe Fit for the Digital Age,
Executive Vice President
Competition,
Commissioner		RV
Věra JourováValues and Transparency,
Vice President		ANO
SloveniaJanez LenarčičCrisis Management,
Commissioner		Ind.
Kadri SimsonEnergy,
Commissioner		KESK
Didier ReyndersJustice,
Commissioner		MR

Elected representatives of member parties

European institutions

OrganisationInstitutionNumber of seats
European Commission
European Council
Council of the EU
European Parliament
Parliamentary Assembly

National parliaments of European Union member states

National parliaments outside the European Union

Member parties

Country or RegionPartyMEPs
NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum
Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats
Reformist Movement
Movement for Rights and Freedoms
Croatian People's Party – Liberal Democrats
Croatian Social Liberal Party
Istrian Democratic Assembly
Civic Liberal Alliance
Pametno
United Democrats
ANO 2011
Social Liberal Party
Venstre
Estonian Centre Party
Estonian Reform Party
Centre Party
Swedish People's Party of Finland
Radical Movement
Union of Democrats and Independents
Free Democratic Party
Hungarian Liberal Party
Momentum Movement
Fianna Fáil
More Europe
Team Köllensperger
For Latvia's Development
Movement For!
Labour Party
Liberals' Movement of the Republic of Lithuania
Freedom Party
Democratic Party
Democratic Party
Democrats 66
People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
.Nowoczesna
Liberal Initiative
Save Romania Union
Progressive Slovakia
List of Marjan Šarec
Modern Centre Party
Party of Alenka Bratušek
Citizens
Centre Party
Liberals

Outside the EU