Renew Europe

Renew Europe
Members	98/705
Group leader	Dacian Cioloș
founding	2019
predecessor	Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Alignment	Liberalism , centrism
European parties	ALDE , EDP
Website	reneweuropegroup.eu

Renew Europe ( English for "Europe must renew") is the name of a faction in the ninth legislative term of the European Parliament . It unites liberal and centrist parties, in particular the members of the European party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the European Democratic Party (EDP), the French electoral alliance Renaissance , which alongside the party of President Emmanuel Macron La République en Marche under Among other things, the EDP member Mouvement démocrate belongs, as well as the alliance of the Romanian opposition parties Uniunea Salvați România (USR) and Partidul Libertății, Unității și Solidarității (PLUS).

The group is the successor to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), whose predecessors include the Liberal and Democratic Group, founded in 1953 . The group currently has 108 members from 22 countries.

From the German-speaking area, the two German parties FDP and Free Voters are represented with five and two members respectively, the Luxemburg Democratic Party with two and NEOS - Das Neue Österreich and Liberales Forum with one member.

history

Members of the liberal and centrist parliamentary group
since 1979, at the beginning and end of the legislature

LD
1979	40/410
1984	38/434
1984	31/434
1989	45/518
1989	49/518
1994	45/518
ELDR
1994	44/567
1999	42/626
1999	50/626
2004	67/788
ALDE
2004	88/732
2009	100/785
2009	84/736
2014	83/766
2014	67/751
2019	69/751
Renew
2019	108/751
current	98/705

On November 9, 2018, the ALDE party and the La République en Marche party agreed on an electoral alliance for the 2019 European elections . Originally, Macron wanted to found his own parliamentary group and - in addition to the liberals - established contacts with conservative, social democratic and green parties across Europe.

In May 2019, the chairman of the ALDE group of Guy Verhofstadt announced in a debate ahead of the 2019 European elections that the ALDE group intends to dissolve after the election and to enter into a new alliance with the Renaissance electoral alliance . This was also followed by the alliance of USR and PLUS, so that the group was temporarily known as ALDE plus Renaissance plus USR Plus . The final name - renew Europe - was announced on June 12, 2019. There was also a choice between “inspire” and “inspire europe”. The main aim of the new name should have been to avoid the negative connotation of the word “liberal” in the French context.

Board

The group leader is the former Romanian Prime Minister Dacian Cioloș . His first deputy is Malik Azmani (VVD). Further deputies are: Katalin Cseh , Luis Garicano , Martin Horwood , Morten Løkkegaard , Iskra Michailowa , Frédérique Ries and Dominique Riquet .

Members

Country	National party	European party	Mandates	Members
Belgium	Mouvement reformateur	ALDE	2/21	Olivier Chastel , Frédérique Ries
	Open Vlaamse Liberalen en Democrats	ALDE	2/21	Hilde Vautmans , Guy Verhofstadt
Bulgaria	Dviženie za Prava i Svobodi	ALDE	3/17	Atidsche Aliewa-Weli , Ilchan Kjuchjuk , Iskra Michailowa
Denmark	Venstre	ALDE	4/14	Asger Christensen , Søren Gade , Morten Løkkegaard , Linea Sogaard-Lidell (since February 1, 2020)
	Det Radical Venstre	ALDE	2/14	Karen Melchior , Morten Helveg Petersen
Germany	Free Democratic Party	ALDE	5/96	Nicola Beer , Andreas Glück , Svenja Hahn , Moritz Körner , Jan-Christoph Oetjen
	Free voters	EDP	2/96	Engin Eroglu , Ulrike Müller
Estonia	Reforming cond	ALDE	2/7	Andrus Ansip , Urmas Paet
	Keskerakond	ALDE	1/7	Yana Toom
Finland	Suomen Keskusta	ALDE	2/14	Elsi Katainen , Mauri Pekkarinen
	Svenska folkpartiet	ALDE	1/14	Nils Torvalds
France
	La République en Marche		12/79	Stéphane Bijoux , Jérémy Decerle , Bernard Guetta , Valérie Hayer , Pierre Karleskind , Nathalie Loiseau , Stéphane Séjourné , Irène Tolleret , Véronique Trillet-Lenoir , Chrysoula Zacharopoulou , Ilana Cicurel (since February 1, 2020), Sandro Gozi (since February 4, 2020) )
	Movement radical	ALDE	1/79	Dominique Riquet
	Agir		1/79	Fabienne Keller
	Mouvement democrate	EDP	5/79	Sylvie Brunet , Catherine Chabaud , Laurence Farreng , Christophe Grudler , Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
	Independent		4/79	Gilles Boyer , Pascal Canfin , Pascal Durand , Stéphanie Yon-Courtin
Ireland	Fianna Fáil	ALDE	2/13	Billy Kelleher , Barry Andrews (since February 1, 2020)
Italy	Italia Viva	-	1/76	Nicola Danti (since February 13, 2020)
Croatia	Istrian Democratic Assembly	ALDE	1/12	Valter Flego
Latvia	Latvijas attīstībai	ALDE	1/8	Ivars Ijabs
Lithuania	Darbo Partija	ALDE	1/11	Viktor Uspaskich
	Lietuvos Respublikos liberalų sąjūdis	ALDE	1/11	Petras Auštrevičius
Luxembourg	Democratic Party	ALDE	2/6	Charles Goerens , Monica Semedo
Netherlands	Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie	ALDE	5/29	Malik Azmani , Jan Huitema , Caroline Nagtegaal-van Doorn , Liesje Schreinemacher , Bart Groothuis (since February 1, 2020)
	Democrats 66	ALDE	2/29	Samira Rafaela , Sophie in 't Veld
Austria	NEOS - The New Austria and Liberal Forum	ALDE	1/19	Claudia Gamon
Romania	Uniunea Salvați România	ALDE	4/33	Clotilde Armand , Vlad Botoș , Cristian Ghinea , Nicolae Ştefănuţă
	Partidul Libertății, Unității și Solidarității		4/33	Dacian Cioloș , Dragoș Pîslaru , Ramona Strugariu , Dragoș Tudorache
Sweden	Liberalerna	ALDE	1/21	Karin Karlsbro
	Centerpartiet	ALDE	2/21	Abir Al-Sahlani , Frederick Federley
Slovakia	Progresívne Slovensko	ALDE	2/14	Martin Hojsík , Michal Šimečka
Slovenia	Lista Marjana Šarca	ALDE	2/8	Klemen Grošelj , Irena Joveva
Spain	Ciudadanos	ALDE	6/59	Jordi Cañas , Javier Nart , Susana Solis Pérez , Soraya Rodríguez , José Ramón Bauzá , Adrián Vázquez Lázara (since February 1, 2020)
	Unión Progreso y Democracia		1/59	Maite Pagazaurtundua
	Partido Nacionalista Vasco	EDP	1/59	Izaskun Bilbao
	Independent		1/59	Luis Garicano
Czech Republic	ANO 2011	ALDE	6/21	Dita Charanzová , Martina Dlabajová , Martin Hlaváček , Ondřej Knotek , Ondřej Kovařík , Radka Maxová
Hungary	Momentum movement	ALDE	2/21	Katalin Cseh , Anna Donáth
United Kingdom	Liberal Democrats	ALDE	-	Catherine Bearder Phil Bennion , Jane Brophy , Judith Bunting , Chris Davies , Dinesh Dhamija , William Newton Dunn , Barbara Gibson , Antony James Hook , Martin Horwood , Shaffaq Mohammed , Lucy Nethsingha , Luisa Manon Porritt , Sheila Ritchie , Caroline Voaden , Irina von Wiese (all resigned after January 31, 2020)
	Alliance Party of Northern Ireland	ALDE	-	Naomi Long (retired on January 31, 2020)
total			98/705

• Blue: members of the ALDE
• Green: members of the EDP

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Maïa de La Baume: Macron-Liberal alliance to be named Renew Europe. In: Politico.eu. June 12, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019 . 
2. ↑ twitter.com
3. ↑ ALDE becomes Renew Europe. In: FDP.de. June 13, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Manuel Müller: "Europe En Marche": Can Emmanuel Macron split the ALDE? In: The (European) Federalist. March 29, 2018. Retrieved November 9, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Christoph Schult: President Macron wants to campaign with Europe's liberals. In: Spiegel Online. November 9, 2018, accessed June 17, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Volker Finthammer, Peter Kapern and Jürgen König: Future of the EU - Macron's challenge to Brussels. In: background. Deutschlandfunk.de, February 22, 2018, accessed on June 17, 2019 (German). 
7. ↑ David M. Herszenhorn: Frenzy in Firenze: 4 takeaways from EU lead candidate debate. In: Politico.eu. May 3, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Florian Eder: ALDE 2.0 deals blow to Weber's Commission dream. In: Politico.eu. May 27, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Florian Eder, Zoya Sheftalovich: POLITICO Brussels Playbook . Politico, June 12, 2019.
10. ↑ Aline Robert: Loiseau's resignation raises leadership issues for "Renew Europe". In: euractiv.com. June 14, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019 . 
11. ↑ aldeparty.eu