The EDP in Belgrade for a European Serbia: legality, free media, fair elections
During the two days of 18–19 September in Belgrade, the European Democratic Party delivered a clear message
● First alderman of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, responsible for urban planning and economic affairs
Alderman of the City of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve. Cédric du Monceau, born in Brussels in 1956, is a Belgian politician and former director of WWF France. He grew up in Ottignies and pursued his education at Atlantic College in Wales before obtaining a degree in International Economics and Finance from the University of Louvain in 1979. Du Monceau’s career spans various sectors, including working at McKinsey&Co, serving as a director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and leading WWF France from 2000 to 2006, where he significantly expanded the organization’s membership and budget. Currently, he serves as the first alderman of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, responsible for urban planning and economic affairs, and has been actively involved in local and national politics since 2006.
During the two days of 18–19 September in Belgrade, the European Democratic Party delivered a clear message
European Movement in Serbia, in collaboration with the European Democratic Party, is organising a public debate entitled “Serbia’s European Hour – Lost Time or New Opportunity?”
EDP MEPs in Paris with Gozi, Bayrou and Barrot: priorities for Strasbourg, governance reform, the cost of living, ecological transition and Europe’s global role
The Secretary General of the EDP and MEP for Renew Europe responds to the Serbian President’s letter: “It is not the citizens who are compromising Serbia’s European path, but its government, with violence, lies, and attacks on freedom.”
As part of our ongoing efforts to strengthen international cooperation between democratic forces, the EDP recently hosted a transatlantic dinner discussion in Paris, bringing together key figures from European and American centrist politics.
Thirty years ago, in Srebrenica, more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were murdered by the Bosnian Serb army. In 2007, the International Court of Justice ruled that the atrocities constituted genocide. The wider Bosnian War saw over 100,000 killed, thousands of women raped, and more than two million people forced from their homes between 1992 and 1995. On this solemn occasion remembering one of the darkest chapters in Europe’s recent history, the ALDE Party, LIBSEEN members in the region, ALDE in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, European Democratic Party, Liberal International, LYMEC, Renew Europe in the Committee of the Regions, Renew Europe in the European Parliament, and the Young Democrats for Europe are united in honouring their memory and issue the following statement: