Archive for the 'IFLRY/LYMEC' Category

Slovakia joins eurozone

Viernes, enero 2nd, 2009

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 [...]

Georgia and Russia in war: call for immediate ceasefire

Lunes, agosto 11th, 2008

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 [...]

LYMEC Bureau debates about CAP with Young Farmers

Lunes, julio 7th, 2008

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 [...]

Global food crisis: scrapping the CAP becomes urgent

Miércoles, mayo 21st, 2008

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 [...]

31º Congreso de las Juventudes Liberales Europeas

Miércoles, mayo 7th, 2008

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 [...]

European Liberal Students welcome the Fifth Freedom of Knowledge

Viernes, abril 11th, 2008

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 Parliament must allow for transparent investigation into MEP frauds

Miércoles, abril 2nd, 2008

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 [...]

Liberal foundations

Jueves, diciembre 13th, 2007

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 [...]

CAP reform plans: not enough

Viernes, noviembre 30th, 2007

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: [...]

Russia drifts away from Europe’s community of values

Miércoles, octubre 24th, 2007

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 [...]