National liberal

National liberalism (German: Nationalliberalismus; Danish: Nationalliberalisme; Finnish: Kansallin liberalismi; Swedish: Nationell liberalism; Romanian: Național-liberalism) is a term used to describe a series of European political parties that have been active, especially in the 19th century, in several national contexts from Central Europe to the Nordic countries and Southeast Europe.

National liberals pursue individual/economic freedom and national sovereignty.József Antall, the first post-communist Prime Minister of Hungary, described national liberalism as "part and parcel of the emergence of the nation state" in 19th-century Europe.

According to Oskar Mulej, "in terms of both ideologies and political party traditions it may be argued that in the Central European lands a distinct type of liberalism, peculiar to this region evolved through the nineteenth century" and, citing Maciej Janowski, "the word 'national' acted as more or less synonymous with 'liberal'" ("'national' alone was sufficient to arouse suspicions of liberal associations"). Also according to Mulej, in Southeast Europe "'national liberals' also played visible if not central roles, but with rather different, region-specific characteristics, which to a considerable extent distinguished them from their Central European counterparts".

In his book Up From Conservatism, Michael Lind defines "national liberalism" in a way that The Progressive describes as matching historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.'s use of the expression "Vital Center". Lind himself defines "national liberalism" as uniting "moderate social conservatism with moderate economic liberalism."

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