On Thursday 5 October our President Bart Somers welcomed almost 1,000 trainees of the European Commission. Bart Somers gave an... Read more
Debate on Catalonia Committee of the Regions Plenary – 10 October 2017 Intervention by Bart Somers (ALDE CoR President)… Read more

Space isn’t irrelevant for regions nor is it too far away: space matters, whether through satellite navigation or Earth observation... Read more

After the success of Erasmus for students, apprentices, young entrepreneurs, higher education professionals and journalists, ALDE's Vice-President in the European... Read more
The Natural Resources Commission (NAT) remit includes the common agricultural policy, fisheries policy, food policy and consumer affairs, health policy... Read more

Energy efficiency is crucially important for achieving Europe's climate and energy targets. The EU should therefore be more ambitious says... Read more

Brexit: the impact on Ireland The ALDE Group in the CoR became the first delegation of the Committee of the... Read more
Rebuilding trust in government with bottom-up policies At the ALDE Party Council meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, our group looked into... Read more
Following our Liberal Mayors Summit success, we are organising a Summit of Young Elected Local and Regional Leaders. The summit... Read more

Social innovation is a new approach which can be a key instrument for combating youth unemployment, bringing people with greater... Read more
Bart Somers, 2016 World Mayor prize winner, pays tribute to Dr Benjamin Barber, author of If Mayors Ruled the World, and... Read more

Our President participated in the International Dialogue on Migration 2017 organised by the UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) in... Read more