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
● Change for Europe :
A genuine transnational democracy.
● Key achievements :
A more transparent and accountable political advertising in Europe.
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EDP Secretary General Sandro Gozi was elected as a member of the Italian parliament in 2006. He was appointed Secretary of State in charge of European Affairs in the Renzi and Gentiloni governments in Italy from 2014 to 2018, then in 2019 was project manager in the cabinet of Prime Minister Édouard Philippe in France. The same year, he was elected a member of the European Parliament on the Renaissance list and sits in the Renew Europe group, where he is a member of both the Constitutional Affairs Committee and the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee. Gozi became in December 2022 the Renew Europe group coordinator within the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. He is also president of the Union of European Federalists and advocates a transnational European policy. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Europe and teaches at several European universities.
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: