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 [...]

With this controversial slogan LYMEC will launch to the second half of this year a new campaign to promote the benefits of globalisation and counter-rest the confusion and misinformation created by organised groups like the socialists and the alter-globalist against a process which is bringing already more prosperity and wealth across the globe.
Despite acknowledging [...]

More than 30 young European liberals and radicals from all over Europe met in Oslo in order to debate about globalisation and its effects on Europe in a globalised world. Climate change, corporate social responsibility, ownership, knowledge economy and competitiveness were some of the main objects discussed during the four days seminar.
Among the interesting [...]

LYMEC presented its campaign against visa barriers in Europe at the Seminar and Lobby training on the Removal of Obstacles to the Mobility of Young People in Europe, organized by the European Youth Forum on 20th – 23rd October 2006 in Brussels.
The event, gathering young people from National Youth Councils and International Youth Organizations, focused [...]

European Liberal Youth has launched a Europe-wide campaign called No Visa. Europe is our home, focused on abolishing tourist and student visas within the European continent.
Although the process of reunifying Europe started to become a reality in 2004, young people from many European countries still face unnecessarily long, expensing and bureaucratic procedures, when traveling to [...]

Brussels, 07/09/06:European Liberal Youth –LYMEC- calls upon the European Union to keep ban on arms sales to China in view of next weekend’s EU-Asia summit taking place in Helsinki, Finland.
The arms ban was put in place by the EU following the violent crackdown by China’s communist regime against pro-democracy protestors on Beijing’s Tiananmen square in [...]

After the last IFLRY Executive Committee meeting in Canada where Young Democrats of America (YDA) decided to re-apply for membership in this organisation, LYMEC president Roger Albinyana met last week in Washington DC the YDA President, Chris Gallaway and the Secretary General, Jane Fleming.
The meeting took place at the headquarters of the National Democratic Committee, [...]