ELDR prime ministers, ministers, commissioners and party leaders will gather together on Thursday 10th December 2009 for the traditional ELDR Leaders and Ministers meeting in advance of the European summit.
The meeting will take place at the Conrad Hotel, Avenue Louise 71, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.

The main focus of the discussion will be the distribution of portfolios in the new European Commission. Other topics on the agenda will be the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen and the state of the negotiations for a new global agreement; and the economic and financial situation in the EU.

The participants will arrive from 11:30 and there will be a family photo at 13:00. The closed meeting for prime ministers, liberal party leaders, commissioners and ministers will finish at 14:30 and will be followed immediately by a press conference between 14:30 – 15:00.

This event will take place at the Conrad Hotel, Avenue Louise 71, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.

Please find below a list of party leaders, ministers and commissioners attending the meeting:

President of the ELDR Party

Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck MEP

Prime Ministers, Commissioners, Ministers and Leaders

Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
Mariann Fischer Boel, Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development
Karel De Gucht, Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid
Siim Kallas, European Commission Vice-President, Commissioner for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud
Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for Competition
Olli Rehn, Commissioner for Enlargement
Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Health, Cyprus
Werner Hoyer, Minister of State for European Affairs, Germany
Cecilia Malmström, Minister of European Affairs, Commissioner designate, Sweden
Astrid Thors, Minister of Migration and European Affairs, Finland
Radimir Čačić, Leader NS Croatia People’s Party, Croatia
Sean O’Curneen Cañas, Leader, Centro Democrático Liberal, Spain
Gjergj Dedaj, Leader, Liberal Party of Kosovo, Kosovo
Praxoula Antoniadou Kyriacou, Leader, United Democrats, Cyprus
Behgjet Pacolli, Leader, Alliance for a New Kosovo, Kosovo
Antonio Di Pietro, Leader, Italia dei Valori, Italy
Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, Leader Mouvement Réformateur, Belgium
Guy Verhofstadt MEP, Leader ALDE Group, European Parliament

For press enquiries, please contact Philipp Hansen, phansen@eldr.eu, tel +32.2551.0160; and Chiara Puletti, cpuletti@eldr.eu, tel +32.2237.0143, mobile +32.488.475.966.