Me in the landscape of EU parties yielded by the EU Profiler

Now, what does this look like in terms of seats?

As none of the ALDE parties are really anti-European, I'll sub-divide the upper quadrants horizontally to give a rough division of the parties. This results in two classifications: federalist and non-federalist liberals, and right- and left-liberals.

Federalist Left-liberals (top upper left quadrant):

• Mouvement Réformateur (BE): 2 seats
  
• Mouvement Démocrate (FR): 6 seats
  
• Marian Harkin (IE): 1 seat (*my estimation based on 5 seconds of research)
  
• Italia dei Valori (IT): 7 seats (*straddles into top upper right)
  
• Democratic Party (LU): 1 seat
  
• Democraten 66 (NL): 3 seats
  
• Zares (SI): 1 seat
  
• Coalición por Europa (SP): 2 seats (*by approximation from CiU and PNV)
  
• Liberal Democrats (UK): 11 seats

Left-liberals (lower upper left quadrant)

• Estonian Centre Party (EE): 2 seats
  
• Estonian Reform Party (EE): 1 seat
  
• Swedish People's Party (FI): 1 seat
  
• Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (SI): 1 seat

Federalist Right-liberals (top upper right quadrant)

• Open VLD (BE): 3 seats
  
• National Movement for Stability and Progress (BG): 2 seats
  
• Movement for Rights and Freedoms (BG): 3 seats
  
• Venstre (DK): 3 seats
  
• Freie Demokratische Partei (DE) 12 seats
  
• Labour Party (LT): 1 seat
  
• Liberal People's Party (SE): 3 seats
  
• Centre Party (SE): 1 seat

Right-liberals (lower upper right quadrant)

• Centre Party (FI): 3 seats
  
• Fianna Fáil (IE): 3 seats
  
• Latvia First / Latvian Way Party (LV): 1 seat
  
• Liberals' Movement (LT): 1 seat
  
• Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie (NL): 3 seats
  
• National Liberal Party (RO): 5 seats

On balance, the new ALDE party is clearly pro-European and slightly right-of-centre on socioeconomic issues. Of course, you have to keep in mind where the 'centre' is these days (on the right). Moreover, 'socioeconomic' is a term that clearly designates two related but often separated political arenas, and the liberals are traditionally on the left on culturally social issues but on the right on economic issues.

So we can expect something of them in terms of social rights and privacy, and it may be possible to successfully put pressure on ALDE in that regard. We can expect rather less in terms of economic equality, labour standards, and nothing at all in terms of the trade agenda.