Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l'Europe | |
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| Founded | 20 July 2004 |
| Dissolved | 2019 |
| Ideology | Liberalism[1] Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre tocentre-right[5] |
| European Parliament group | Renew Europe European Conservatives and Reformists (Jaak Madison) |
| International affiliation | Liberal International |
TheAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE;French:Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l'Europe,ADLE) was a transnational alliance between twoEuropean political parties, theAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and theEuropean Democratic Party. ALDE had political groups in theEuropean Parliament, the EUCommittee of the Regions, theParliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and theNATO Parliamentary Assembly. There were assorted independents in these groups as well as national-level affiliate parties of the European-level parties.
Thepro-European platform of ALDE espousedliberal economics, and supported forEuropean integration and theEuropean single market.[6]
Following the2019 European Parliament election,Renew Europe replaced theAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group from the 2014−2019 Parliament, and ALDE, as a political alliance between the ALDE Party and the EDP, ceased to be mentioned.
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),[7] 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 isBart Somers, Mayor ofMechelen and leader of the liberal group in the Flemish Parliament.[8][9]
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