Before establishment Because inter-war
International Entente of Radical and Similar Democratic Parties ceased to operate in the beginning of the
World War II, on 16 June 1946 representatives of the
Liberal Party of Belgium, British
Liberal Party, French
Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party,
Danish Social Liberal Party,
Freedom Party of the Netherlands,
Free Democratic Party of Switzerland,
People's Party of Sweden,
Italian Liberal Party and the representatives of Spanish Liberals in exile assembled in
Brussels and adopted the Declaration of Brussels, which called for creation of world liberal organisation.
Oxford Manifesto The
Oxford Manifesto, drawn up in April 1947 at
Wadham College in
Oxford by representatives from 19 liberal political parties from South Africa, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Spain, Estonia, United Kingdom, United States, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Turkey is a document describing the basic political principles of the Liberal International. Creation of its main principles were led by
Salvador de Madariaga. The Oxford Manifesto was inspired by the ideas of
William Beveridge and is regarded as one of the defining political documents of the 20th century. Fifty years on, in 1997, Liberal International returned to Oxford and issued a supplement to the original manifesto,
The Liberal Agenda for the 21st century, describing Liberal policies in greater detail. The second Oxford Manifesto was adopted by the 48th Congress of Liberal International, which was held on 27–30 November 1997 in the
Oxford Town Hall. In 2017, the global federation marked its 70th anniversary with the adoption of the Andorra Liberal Manifesto for the twenty-first century (ALM). A three-year project across numerous continents initiated by then president Juli Minoves, the ALM embodied the widest consultation of views undertaken by Liberal International in order to compile a policy document. == Organisation ==