ALDE Party Congress – Brussels 2025

• Svenja Hahn, ALDE Party President
• Kaja Kallas, High Representative/Vice President Foreign Affairs & Security Policy
• Kristen Michal, Prime Minister (Estonia)

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• Sabina Ćudić MP, President of Naša stranka, BiH 
• Eliza Hoxha MP, Member of Presidency of PDK, Kosovo
• Pavle Grbović MP, President of PSG, Serbia
• Markus Kaiser, Project Director of FNF Western Balkans

Moderated by Dr. Helmut Brandstätter MEP, Renew Europe Rapporteur Western Balkans

- Romina Pourmokhtari, Minister for Environment, Sweden 
- Jan-Christoph Oetjen, ELF President and MEP, Renew Europe Group
- Manuel Fernández-Ordóñez, author of the ELF policy paper on SMRs
- Constantinos Saravakos, author of the ELF policy paper on SMRs
- Maartje Schulz, Policy and Research Manager, European Liberal Forum
- Emmanuel Brutin, Director General, Nuclear Europe
- Roxana Nicula, President, Fundalib

• Svenja Hahn, ALDE Party President
• Georges-Louis Bouchez, President of MR (Belgium)
• Frédéric De Gucht, President of Open VLD (Belgium)
• Valérie Hayer, President of Renew Europe Group
• Micheál Martin, Taoiseach of Ireland (video)

“Europe Rising: The strategy for global leadership”

• Ionuț Moșteanu, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence (USR, Romania)
• Xavier Bettel, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Foreign Affairs (DP, Luxembourg)
• Taras Kachka, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration (Sluga Narodu, Ukraine)
• Marta Kos, European Commissioner for Enlargement (Gibanje Svoboda, Slovenia)
• Marie Bjerre, Minister for European Affairs (Venstre, Denmark)
• Thomas Byrne, Minister of State for European Affairs and Defence (Fianna Fáil, Ireland)

with David Clarinval, Mayor of Bièvre and Deputy Prime Minister (MR, Belgium)

Superpower Europe – Building a resilient and safe continent

• Hadja Lahbib, European Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management (MR, Belgium)
• Romina Pourmokhtari, Minister for Climate and Environment (Liberalerna, Sweden)
• Bernard Quintin, Minister of Security and the Interior (Mouvement Réformateur, Belgium)
• Dominic Fritz, Party Leader, Mayor of Timișoara (USR, Romania)
• Elene Khoshtaria, Party Leader and former Deputy Minister of the State Ministry for EuroAtlantic Integration (Droa!, Georgia)

Moderated by Helmut Brandstätter MEP (NEOS, Austria)

Networking Coffee

Opening keynote by Diana Buzoianu, Minister of Environment (USR, Romania)

• Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, CEO, Hydrogen Europe
• Xavier Noyon, Secretary General, European Biodiesel Board (EBB)
• Emma Wiesner, MEP & Member of ENVI committee

Moderated by Yoko Alender, ALDE Bureau Member & Chair of the Committee for Environment at the Estonian Parliament 

Superpower Europe –Reforming EU decision-making in a dangerous world

• Kiril Petkov, Former Prime Minister (We Continue The Change, Bulgaria)
• Diana Buzoianu, Minister of Environment, Water and Forest (USR, Romania)
• Georges-Louis Bouchez MP, Party Leader (MR, Belgium)
• Anna Stürgkh, MEP (NEOS, Austria)

Moderated by Monika Zajkova MP, Party leader (LDP, North Macedonia) and President of LIBSEEN

Hosted by the Renew Europe Group 

Vice-President candidates:

• Dan Barna (USR, Romania)
• Malik Azmani (VVD, The Netherlands)
• Eva Kjer Hansen (Venstre, Denmark)

Treasurer candidate:

• David Burke (Fianna Fáil, Ireland)

Moderated by Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová MEP (Progresívne Slovensko, Slovakia)

Superpower Europe – Which economic future for a trading continent? ​

Speakers:

• Radu Miruță, Minister of Economy and Digitalisation (USR, Romania)
• Mariana Leitão, Member of Parliament and Party Leader (Iniciativa Liberal, Portugal) 
• Nicole Büttner, Secretary General of FDP (Germany) and CEO of Merantix Momentum

Moderated by Birgitta Ohlsson, former Minister of European Affairs of Sweden

Debate and vote on resolutions

By Didrik de Schaetzen, ALDE Party Secretary General.

Closing remarks by Svenja Hahn, ALDE Party President