The European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) welcomes the introduction of the common currency in Slovakia. On January 1st 2009, the country had joined the ranks of currently 15 member states that use the Euro. ‘Start-up packages’ containing the EUR equivalent of 500 Sk (16.60 €) are already sold at all post offices and local commercial banks [...]

European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) firmly condemns the war that has erupted between Georgia and Russia and urges both sides to cease fire and respect international law and civilians’ rights. Aloys Rigaut, President of LYMEC, commented: “We had hoped that after the Balkan war in the early 1990s, we would not see more wars of this [...]

At the occasion of its meeting in Brussels this weekend, the LYMEC bureau met with representatives of the European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA, www.ceja.org) for a first exchange of views on the LYMEC campaign “CAP is CRAP: EU budget needs new priorities”. CEJA represents 27 organisations from 21 EU Member States including one observer [...]

Whilst EU agriculture ministers are meeting in Brussels today for an emergency debate on the sharp rise in food and agriculture product prices on global markets, European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) wishes to take this occasion to restate its call for a disbanding of the CAP and to underline that the global food crisis only strengthens [...]

Antesdeayer llegó la delegación de Juventudes Liberales que asistió al 31º Congreso anual de las Juventudes Liberales Europeas (LYMEC) realizado en Barcelona, España. Organizado por los Jóvenes Nacionalistas de Cataluña JNC. Al evento asistieron más de 170 delegados. Durante el Congreso se eligió a la nueva directiva de LYMEC: Aloys Rigaut (Jeunes MR, Bélgica) fue [...]

On 14 March 2008, the European Council uniting the heads of states and governments of all 27 EU-member states has declared that the EU must create a “fifth freedom” – the freedom of knowledge – which should be added to the four fundamental freedoms of the Union (the free movement of persons, capital, goods and [...]

European Liberal Youth LYMEC has learned with shock and disbelief of the great frauds perpetrated by some Members of European Parliament and uncovered by the work of the auditors. We are proud that an ALDE MEP, Chris Davies, was the first one to speak out on this issue and call for full public inquiry into [...]

The Friedrich Naumann Foundation and SILC is the Swedish International In its daily work, especially in the field of political education and the promotion of liberalism, LYMEC has been cooperating for many years with two important liberal foundations that New Libertas would like to introduce to you. The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom was established [...]

Last week, EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel unveiled her so-called “health check” of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP), which fine-tunes the 2003 reforms and contributes to the discussion on future priorities in the field of agriculture, in the context of the budgetary review 2008/2009. It is designed to kick off a wide-ranging six-month consultation: [...]

In less than two months’ time, the inhabitants of the largest country in the world will go to the polls to elect members of their national parliament – the Duma. LYMEC has been concerned with the democratic situation in Russia ever since the current president Vladimir Putin came to power. LYMEC treasurer, Jeroen Benning, attended [...]