Browsing the "ALDE" Tag

Next Head of the European Commission: Verhofstadt?

January 24th, 2014 | by Mareike TRULL

On Monday this week, the ALDE political group nominated their candidate for the presidency of the European Commission: the former

January 20th, 2014 | by Mareike TRULL

Before your mandate as a Member of the European Parliament, which started in 2009, you were involved in local politics,

November 26th, 2013 | by Frida GÖTESKOG

“Europe is the solution!” says Swedish Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Olle Schmidt, who has been working for the Swedish

Enlargement: After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, enlargement was made a core EU priority. As of 2014, the EU is now composed of 28 Member States after seven successful rounds of enlargement. Five candidate countries have yet to become members: Iceland, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey.
Austerity: Governments spend less in order to reduce budget deficits.
New Europeans: People with a migrant background, who live and work in a European country and, in most cases, do not intend to go back to their country of origin. Their future is, rather, in Europe
MEP: Member of the European Parliament. The MEPs are your representatives at the EU level. They adopt EU legislations and the budget. You elect them for a period of 5 years. The next election is in May 2014.