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View ArticleWill Lib Dem councillors miss out on this year’s LeaDeRs Awards?
The deadline for submitting nominations for the Local and Regional Liberal Politicians Awards, LeaDeRs, organised by the ALDE Group in the EU’s Committee of the Regions has been extended until 10...
View ArticleSir Graham Watson MEP writes…Welcoming ALDE Party Congress to London
This week the Liberal Democrats are playing host to the wider European Liberal family – the ALDE Party’s big annual congress, which is taking place in London on today, Friday and Saturday. Over 900...
View Article@ALDEParty Congress: meet (most of) the Vice-Presidential candidates *updated*
Welcome to Liberal Democrat Voice’s coverage of the Annual Congress of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe, or ALDE for short. The Congress, which was officially opened yesterday evening,...
View Article@ALDEParty Congress: Council, the contractual obligation album?
Welcome to Liberal Democrat Voice’s coverage of the Annual Congress of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe, or ALDE for short. The Congress, which was officially opened yesterday evening,...
View Article@ALDEParty Congress: writing a manifesto for Europe
So, a bit like the Eurovision Song Contest, but possibly with better tunes, liberals from as far afield as Armenia and Catalonia, Finland and Cyprus are gathered to debate the draft manifesto. The...
View Article2013 @ALDEParty Congress: the election results
On Saturday afternoon, despite some technical difficulties with the election equipment, Returning Officers Daniel Obst (FDP, Germany) and Mark Valladares (Liberal Democrats, UK) were able to announce...
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Liberals launch new European network for LGBT rights
Last weekend, over a thousand European liberals met in London for the annual ALDE congress, hosted by the Lib Dems and opened by Nick Clegg. The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe – the...
View ArticleALDE to select candidate for president of the European Commission
The ALDE Party has called an extraordinary Electoral Congress to advise the ALDE Party Bureau to choose a candidate for the President of the European Commission. This congress will take place in the...
View ArticleNick Clegg backs Olli Rehn as ALDE European Commission Presidential candidate
Nick Clegg yesterday backed Olli Rehn, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs to become the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)...
View Article2013 @ALDEParty Congress: a manifesto is born
ALDE has become the first of the European political parties to release its manifesto for next year’s European elections. As ALDE Party President, Sir Graham Watson notes; This manifesto is a departure...
View Article2014 – the year of an election the media might miss
This year starts with media attention turning towards European elections in the Spring, and will end with the political parties cranking through the gears in anticipation of a General Election. In...
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ALDE 2014 – it’s just like being in a movie
In any half decent action movie, you have to have a vaguely credible, if unlikely, hero, a stereotypically evil, well-resourced opponent, and some sort of desirable outcome. For example, a mild...
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Opinion: It’s official – Lib Dems are “most successful and influential” in...
Ahead of the second EU debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage this evening, a timely new report has found that Liberal Democrats are the most influential British party in the European Parliament....
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#SelfEU: the way to win a day with ALDE’s Guy Verhofstadt*
Yes, the #selfEU is actually a thing, as ALDE’s Guy Verhofstadt promotes his campaign to become the next President of the European Commission: THE ONE AND ONLY “SELF-EU” CONTEST It’s simple, just send...
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ALDE Party Council – seeing double in the city of intrigue and sachertorte
It is perhaps appropriate that, given the much-anticipated (at least by our enemies) fate of Liberal Democrats on 22 May, the ALDE (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe) Party Council meets in...
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European elections: vote Conservative, get Liberal?
It’s polling day here and, indeed, in the Netherlands, as four days of voting for the European Parliament kick off. And, just possibly, whilst the Liberal Democrats are predicted to suffer losses here...
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@ALDEParty Council preview –“How was it for you?”
It seems like mere weeks since the last Council meeting of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe (ALDE), when optimism was in the air – admittedly helped by the presence of our Austrian...
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What’s going on in the European Parliament this week?
Debates between the political parties in the European Parliament to form the all-important political groups, on which depends importance Committee places and speaking rights, continue in Brussels this...
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Opinion: What’s going on in Brussels? Political groupings in the European...
Following on from my post last week on post-election developments in Brussels, here’s the first of two updates. Today’s will focus on developments concerning the formation of political groups in the...
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