European Choice (Italian: Scelta Europea, SE) was a pro-European and primarily liberal electoral alliance of political parties in Italy formed to contest the 2014 European election on a platform influenced heavily by the Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt.
[1][2][3] In early March 2014 the list received support from Guy Verhofstadt, former Prime Minister of Belgium and candidate of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and the European Democratic Party for President of the European Commission,[4] and the endorsement of Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission and former president of the Democratic Party.
[5][6] Later, on 19 March, CD, FFD and other groups agreed to go forward with the creation of the list without SC [7] whose members criticised the deal and Verhofstadt himself.
[9] However, the list went ahead with the participation of SC (as originally planned) and the exclusion of Italy of Values, the main Italian member of the ALDE Party, and controversial candidates, including Muscardini and Alfano.
In the election SE received 0.7% of the vote, being stronger in the South (CD's heartland),[10] and failed to return any MEPs.