Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

{{Infobox political party

|name = Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

| logo = ALDE logo.svg

| logo_size = 250px

| colorcode = {{party color|Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe}}

| foundation = 20 July 2004

| ideology = Liberalism{{cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/eu.html|title=European Union|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|year=2015|access-date=2018-09-22|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608032858/http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/eu.html|archive-date=2017-06-08}}
Pro-Europeanism

| international = Liberal International

| website = {{URL|https://www.aldeparty.eu}}

| country = the European Union

|native_name = Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l'Europe

| position = {{Nowrap|Centre to centre-right{{refn|{{cite web |url= https://agenceurope.eu/en/bulletin/article/13283/2 |title= With 5 months to go before elections, Europe's political families are gradually getting their act together |last= |first= |date= 1 November 2023 |website= agenceurope.eu |publisher= Agence Europe |access-date= 10 June 2024}}{{cite news |last= Galluzzo |first= Mauro |date= 18 May 2014 |title= The United States of Europe: EU's answer to Russia? |url= https://www.channel4.com/news/european-parliament-elections-united-states-federal-europe |work= Channel 4 |access-date= 10 June 2024}}{{cite book |last= H. Ginsberg |first= Roy |author-link= |date= 2007 |title= Demystifying the European Union: The Enduring Logic of Regional Integration |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=VD8NuNhwwQwC&q=%22center-right+Alliance+of+Liberals+and+Democrats%22&pg=PA191 |location= New York |publisher= Rowman & Littlefield |page= 191 |isbn= 9780742536555}}}}}}

| europarl = Renew Europe
European Conservatives and Reformists (Jaak Madison)

| seats1_title = European Parliament

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|102|705|hex={{party color|Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe}}}}

| seats2_title = Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|103|642|hex={{party color|Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe}}}}

}}

The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE; {{langx|fr|Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l'Europe}}, ADLE) is a transnational alliance between two European political parties, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and the European Democratic Party. ALDE has political groups in the European Parliament, the EU Committee of the Regions, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. There are assorted independents in these groups as well as national-level affiliate parties of the European-level parties.

The pro-European platform of ALDE espouses liberal economics, and support for European integration and the European single market.{{cite book|author1=David Phinnemore|author2=Lee McGowan|title=A Dictionary of the European Union|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m9EB7e8pgywC&pg=PA277|access-date=7 August 2013|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-08127-0|page=277}}

European Parliament

Committee of the Regions

{{Main|The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Committee of the Regions}}

=Foundation=

Following the creation of the ALDE group in the European Parliament, which occurred half-way during the third mandate of the Committee of the Regions (CoR),{{Cite web |url=http://www.cor.europa.eu/ |title=CoR.europa.eu |access-date=27 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070115131707/http://www.cor.europa.eu/ |archive-date=15 January 2007 |url-status=dead }} the members of the ELDR Group in the CoR rapidly entered into talks with the CoR members belonging to the EDP Party with a view to replicating a similar arrangement within the CoR. Under the presidency of Kent Johansson, Executive Member of the Swedish Region of Västra Götaland, the ELDR Group of the Committee of the Regions unanimously agreed in February 2005 to change its name to the ALDE Group and to accept the EDP members to the group. In doing so, the group adopted a new mission statement (see below). The current president of the group is Bart Somers, Mayor of Mechelen and leader of the liberal group in the Flemish Parliament.{{Cite news|url=http://alde-cor.eu/about/|title=About – ALDE Group – Liberals & Democrats in the European Committee of the Regions|work=ALDE Group – Liberals & Democrats in the European Committee of the Regions|access-date=2017-02-27|language=en-GB}}{{Cite news|url=http://alde-cor.eu/our-history/|title=Our history – ALDE Group – Liberals & Democrats in the European Committee of the Regions|work=ALDE Group – Liberals & Democrats in the European Committee of the Regions|access-date=2017-02-27|language=en-GB}}

Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)

{{Main|Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe}}

References

External links

[http://www.alde.eu/ Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in European Parliament]
[http://www.alde-cor.eu Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the Committee of the Regions]
[http://www.alde-pace.org/ Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in PACE]
[http://www.pde-edp.eu EDP official website]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20071030102648/http://www.eldr.org/ European Liberal Democrat and Reform (ELDR) Party]