From the 1 – 3 May 2008 the 10th Windhoek Dialogue took place. The Windhoek Dialogue is a platform for European parliamentarians from the EPP-ED group (European People’s Party – European Democrats) to meet with leaders of African political (centrist) parties, which are organised in a party network called the Union of African Parties for Democracy and Development (UPADD / UAPDD). UPADD was established in 1996 in Windhoek, it comprises out of 25 parties from 24 countries. The Windhoek Dialogue frequently meets, but not necessarily in Windhoek. The last meeting was in May 2007 in Berlin, shortly before the G 8 Heiligendamm Summit. In its declaration, Windhoek Dialogue adopted two other UPADD declarations and endorsed their conclusions, referring especially to the need for transparent and consensual preparations for the upcoming elections in Angola, the right of the new parliamentary majority in Zimbabwe to be fully respected by all institutions concerned and to operate in accordance with the Constitution, the necessity for a level playing field in the upcoming second round of the presidential elections in Zimbabwe, and the imperative of granting full press freedom, freedom of expression and equal access to state media, the absence of misuse of state and parastatal resources, to be observed by a comprehensive international, regional and domestic election observation.