At the invitation of Hans van Baalen MEP, President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party, liberal Prime Ministers and European Commissioners will meet at the Egmont Palace in Brussels on 17 December ahead of the European Council Summit of the same day.

Invited participants are:

Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
Miro Cerar, Prime Minister of Slovenia
Charles Michel, Prime Minister of Belgium
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
Taavi Rõivas, Prime Minister of Estonia
Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Juha Sipilä, Prime Minister of Finland
Andrej Babiš, Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
Violeta Bulc, European Commissioner for Transport
Vĕra Jourová, European Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality
Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition

Guy Verhofstadt, Leader of the ALDE Group in the European Parliament

Francois Bayrou, President of the European Democratic Party and leader of MoDem, France
Albert Rivera, Leader of Ciudanos, Spain

Schedule:

12:00 Arrival of the participants and family picture

12:15 – 13:45 Liberal Pre-Summit meeting

13:30 – 13:45 Picture and Press statements

Press accreditations:

For accreditation and bilateral interview requests, please fill in the form below:
http://www.aldeparty.eu/en/press-accreditation-form

Additional press information can be obtained through Didrik de Schaetzen, ALDE Party Head of Communications, on ddeschaetzen@aldeparty.eu +32 479 33 10 27
Journalists and crews must carry a valid form of identification at all times while on site

For further information about the Pre-Summit meeting, please contact ALDE Party Events & Business Relations Manager Emily Death on events@aldeparty.eu +32 2 237 01 49

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