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 […]

The International Federation of Liberal Youth strongly supports the recent protests in Burma and calls upon the Burmese junta to step down from power.
The protests currently led by the Burmese monks in several cities around the country deserve the utmost attention of the international society. The bloodshed of the violent military crackdown of 1988 should […]

Whilst the first reading by the European Parliament of the controversial proposal of EU directive on ‘the full accomplishment of the internal market of Community postal services’ is scheduled this week, the European Liberal Youth - LYMEC - wishes to restate its firm belief in a full and swift liberalisation of EU postal services.
The first […]

On the occasion of an invitation to Poland by the European Socialist Youth (ECOSY), Roger Albinyana, LYMEC president, took the opportunity to meet the new leadership of Young Center (MC) and support them in the fight against nationalism and extremism increasing in that country and incited by the current leadership of twins Kaczynski, president and […]

At the Liberal Democrat summit held on 8 March, ELDR Party President Annemie Neyts, Estonian PM Andrus Ansip, Danish PM Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Romanian PM Calin Popescu, Belgian PM Guy Verhofstadt, ALDE Group Leader Graham Watson, and European Commission Vice President Siim Kallas met to discuss economic and energy issues. The need to strengthen the […]