Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe

ALDE Newsletter - June 2009

click to view

ELDR and LI support Matyas Eörsi and ALDE
Liberal International and the ELDR address letters of support to the ALDE.... more

Standing Together for Liberal Values
My foreign liberal friends often ask me how they can help to Russian liberals and Yabloko. The answer is simple: the fight for spreading liberal values in Russia is our Russian task. Only the Russian citizens can build a law-governed state in Russia based on liberal values. But there are things we may do better together, and many issues from the CE agenda are among them.... more

ALDE member inaugurates a Council of Europe information point in Belarus
8.06.2009 Andrea Rigoni (Italy), member of the ALDE and PACE Rapporteur on Belarus, welcomed the inauguration of the Council of Europe information point in Minsk. "This is our greatest hope, that the Information Point, by raising awareness of the Council of Europe in Belarus, will prompt a growing desire to share the same values, that it will prompt a wish among the young people of Belarus - who one day will be journalists, civil servants or ministers - to communicate with young Europeans and speak a common language, based on respect for democracy, human rights and the rule of law," said the Rapporteur.... more

ALDE Newsletter - May 2009

The May issue of the ALDE Newsletter is now available.... more

13.05.2009 Matyas Eörsi comments on the Secretary General election
Dear Friends, Colleagues and Readers,

I am sure you understand it is uneasy for me to comment the procedure about the election of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe. As a candidate to the highest position in the organisation, it is difficult to remain objective. But even if I could judge the process from ALDE or from the whole Council of Europe's viewpoint, I would fully understand that many people would question my objectivity.... more