The Alliance of the Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE) organized their Liberty Summit in Chisinau and Orhei, Moldova, on 20 October 2018. The ECR Group President, Rob Jonkman (Alderman in Opsterland, the Netherlands), spoke at the summit on the panel looking at best practices in achieving free and fair elections.

The Moldova summit aimed to support the country’s goals for political and economic reforms. In particular, it looked at the reforms that could help strengthen the country’s relationship with Europe and the west and help develop a truer democracy where the rule of law would replace crony capitalism, corruption and poverty and in their place provide the structures that ensure the stability and prosperity of the Moldovan people.

The summit was hosted right before the Moldavian parliamentary elections, which will take place in February 2019. The summit also enabled Conservative and Reformist relations to be further developed. ECR President Rob Jonkman and other conservative politicians from across Europe expressed their hope that the February elections will lead the country towards more transparency and accountability, as well as helping to eradicate corruption.

During the summit, Alderman Jonkman spoke on the panel "Free and Fair Elections", where he shared best practices from the Netherlands in terms of achieving greater transparency and accountability. He underlined that "elections are a central feature of democracy but in order for them to express the will of the electorate, they must be "free and fair." He listed five minimum criteria that must be met for any election to be considered "free and fair". These include "transparency", "privacy", "integrity", "affordability" and "accessibility".

The focus of the other panel discussions during the Liberty Summit was the Future of European political and economic integration. The panel on free markets as a means of poverty alleviation was moderated by the Secretary General of the ECR Group in the European Committee of the Regions, Neva Sadikoglu-Novaky.

During the ACRE Council meeting, members agreed to establish the ACRE Women's Movement. The movement aims to support women’s political participation and increase women’s representation in public office at national and EU level. The first meeting of the movement took place straight after the council meeting, where board members were elected.

During the constitutive meeting the Georgian Member of Parliament, Nino Goguadze, was elected as chair of the movement and the Secretary-General of the ECR Group in the CoR, Neva Sadikoglu-Novaky, was elected as the secretary-general. Eliana Celaj from the ECR CoR Secretariat was elected as treasurer. The vice-presidents of the movement include member of the Israeli Parliament, Nurit Koren from the Likud Party, and members of the European Parliament, Ruža Tomašić and Jadwiga Wiśniewska. The advisory board includes Anna Fotyga, MEP and chair of the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Security and Defence, and Fleur Butler from the UK.