[16] A pro-European party, it is a member of Liberal International and the ALDE, and has one MEP in the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament.

The party was cautiously open to aspects of the welfare state, and also advocated reforms to improve the position of smallholders, an important early group of supporters.

[17][18] The party's social-liberal ideals are said to have been inspired by the political economists Henry George and John Stuart Mill.

The Danish People's Party overtook the Social Liberals' key position as prime candidate for parliamentary support.

Furthermore, the DPP's anti-immigrant policies made the Social Liberals profile themselves as a progressive party being pro-globalisation, pro-EU and more tolerant towards refugees and immigrants.

At the same time the party profiled itself on reforming the welfare system, campaigning to abolish "efterløn" and lower taxes.

[22] Vestager clarified during the run-up to the 2007 general election that her party would only be supporting a government led by the Social Democrats.

On 31 August 2014, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt nominated Margrethe Vestager as Denmark's EU Commissioner, resulting in her resignation as party leader.

The Social Liberal Party had instigated the election by threatening a vote of no confidence against Mette Frederiksen's government in July 2022 due to the 2020 Danish mink cull.

In a modern context, this literal translation is somewhat misleading, as the party is considered to be centrist in the Danish political spectrum.

[citation needed] In the European Parliament, the Danish Social Liberal Party sits in the Renew Europe group with one MEP.