Chairman of the YABLOKO party will participate in the ELDR Leaders and Ministers meeting which will take place in Brussels on Thursday, June 18, 2009, in advance of the European summit.
This meeting will be the first time that ELDR's leaders will have gathered since the European elections and the main focus of the discussions will be the election results and the composition of the liberal democrat group in the European parliament.
Prime ministers of Estonia, Denmark, Finland and Ireland, ministers of the EU countries, EU Commissioners, leaders of European liberal parties, including Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, President of the ELDR Party, and Graham Watson, leader of ALDE, the liberal faction of the European Parliament, will participate in the meeting.
In his speech YABLOKO’s leader is going to draw attention of the European liberals to the RF - EU relations. Mitrokhin is certain that Russia – EU relations should be based on mutual trust and shared values rather than on the present oil and gas trade only. According to Mitorkhin, shared liberal values help in finding mutually profitable economic schemes; whereas the policies rooted in unprincipled pragmatism will finally fail.
The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR Party) brings together 55 political parties with common liberal, democratic and reform ideals. In 2007 the European Liberal Democrat political family achieved many successes in the various elections around the EU member states, bringing the total number of liberal democrat voters to 30 million Europe-wide.
Five EU prime ministers, one third of the members of the European Commission, 75 MEPs in the ALDE Group of the European Parliament and ministers in more than 20 governments in Europe belong to the liberal family.
See also:
YABLOKO as a member of Liberal International
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