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LYMEC Seminar, EC&Extraord.Congress 2008
LYMEC invites you to a seminar on mobility in Europe's regions, to take place in Liege (Belgium) 18-21 November. Following the seminar, Executive Commiteee and Extraordinary Congress of LYMEC will take place in Brussels, 21-23 November. To learn more about these events and nominate click here. Extended deadline for nominations is 19 October, 23:59 CET (Belgian time)
ALDE Winter Academy
ALDE Winter Academy will take place on 2-4 December in Brussels, in cooperation with LYMEC and EDP Youth, and will be entitled: "Liberals and Democrats on migration and integration"
Description for the event and nomination form can be consulted here. Deadline for nominations is 3 November 2008.
Online petition www.sayno.eu to fight child sex tourism
Every year thousands of tourists go to countries in Southeast Asia, South America and Africa seeking sex with minors. The chance that offenders get caught is almost zero. This has to change. European Liberals and Democrats have launched an online petition www.sayno.eu to fight child prostitution. The online petition pleads for more powers for Europol to fight sexual exploitation of children by Europeans travelling abroad.
The EU cannot close its eyes to sexual exploitation of minors abroad committed by its own citizens. The Council has to give Europol the means to fight these appalling crimes.
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President's message
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Hello,
Welcome to our website! European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) is the youth wing of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform (ELDR) Party. We strive to promote our values - freedom, human rights, democracy - and make a political impact throughout the diversity of our continent. Be a freedom fighter, come and join us!
Yours sincerely,
Aloys Rigaut
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 European Liberal Youth - LYMEC warmly welcomes Barack Obama's victory in the US presidential election. His election heralds a new era after eight years of Bush's narrow-minded and failed policies both internally and towards the rest of the world, and is the symbol of a new political generation.
Aloys Rigaut, President of LYMEC, commented: " For our generation this election means hope. Bush policies have trailed the rest of the world into crisis: Iraq war, global terrorism, financial crisis, continuing climate change, stalemate in WTO talks... With Barack Obama's election, we hope that the US will find a new path and stand firm together with the EU on the world stage to find solutions to these urgent and worrying global challenges".
Sunday, November 09, 2008
 The party of European liberal democrats (ELDR) met last weekend in Stockholm, Sweden. During the two-day congress the delegates unanimously agreed on its Electoral Manifesto for the upcoming EP elections, structured around four main topics: 1) civil liberties, 2) EU single market, growth and employment, 3) environment and energy policy and 4) enlargement, foreign, security and defence policy.
LYMEC was represented by a 10-member strong delegation, which among other things, managed to insert in the ELDR Electoral Manifesto its demand to reduce the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2013 and replace it instead with new common food, rural and sustainable land use strategies. The LYMEC Delegation also succeeded in making approved by the ELDR Congress a more detailed resolution on CAP & food prices as well as a resolution on student mobility in Europe. LYMEC delegates furthermore took an active part in political discussions, taking stand notably on the current financial crisis, sustainable energy, EU-Russia relations and environmental challenges. 
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
 At the occasion of the ELDR congress in Stockholm last weekend, the LYMEC bureau had a breakfast meeting with EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Mariann Fischer Boel (Venstre, Denmark) for an exchange of views on the LYMEC campaign ‘CAP is CRAP: EU budget needs new priorities’.
Even though the Commissioner saw the LYMEC campaign as very radical, she acknowledged the fact that youth organisations have to be more radical than their mother parties in order to influence them in a certain direction and she thus encouraged LYMEC to pursue in this direction. She also agreed on the need to continue the reform of the CAP and exchanged views with LYMEC about long-term visions for the CAP. Note: In the picture (from left to right): Alexander Plahr, Aloys Rigaut, Mariann Fischer Boel, Mette Lykke Nielsen
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
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 The freshly appointed UK defence secretary has publicly supported on Monday the idea of a European army. This position is a U-turn as the UK, the largest of the EU's big-three military spenders ahead of France and Germany, had indeed until now opposed this idea of a common EU force, arguing that it would unnecessarily duplicate tasks performed by NATO. The French EU Presidency wants the bloc's existing military framework to have a new headquarters and each Member State to commit 1,500 troops to rapid reaction forces, and this new UK position should considerably facilitate talks.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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 Last week, 13-15 October, the LYMEC Bureau met with representatives of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the liberal group in the European Parliament, exploring possibilities for stronger cooperation.
Apart from meeting several ALDE key contacts, discussing collaboration and visiting a group meeting, the leadership of LYMEC met with Andrew Duff MEP and the leader of the liberal group in the European Parliament Graham Watson MEP. The talks focused on a number of aspects, including among others the Lisbon Treaty, upcoming European Parliament elections and the future of European parties. Special focus was put on the need to personalise EP elections in order to give voters a true choice and to create a real European political layer instead of having 27 different EP elections. This includes putting forward common liberal candidates for top positions to make liberals more visible to the average voters. Note: On the photo: Graham Watson MEP with the LYMEC Bureau
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
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 The presidents of European Liberal Youth (LYMEC)’s member organisations were gathered in Varna, Bulgaria, from 9 to 12 October. Young liberal leaders were due to discuss the Lisbon Treaty and the response to the Irish no, but following the continuing plunge of stock markets on 10 October, they preferred to interrupt their normal programme in order to formulate a common response to the financial crisis.
Reacting to the predictions that this crisis means the end of liberalism, European young liberal leaders stressed that liberalism is not to blame for the current crisis and that socialism is anyway no alternative. If the nationalisation of certain banks appear unavoidable to prevent contagion, these nationalisations shall indeed remain temporary.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
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 The Young Leaders Meeting (YLM), which gathers every year the presidents of LYMEC’s member organisations, took place in Varna, Bulgaria, from 9 to 12 October, with the support of the ALDE Group in the European Parliament and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. The theme of this year’s YLM was “What future for Europe – with or without the Lisbon Treaty?”.
Young liberal leaders reiterated their support to the Lisbon Treaty and its swift ratification by the remaining Member States, expressing confidence that a pragmatical solution would be found to the Irish no. Going further, they put the Treaty into practice by simulating a European Council meeting on a new (fictional) Georgia crisis, whereby Russia would seek to include Georgia’s separatist Republics into its Federation provoking a new war with Georgia. Note: Photo: Aloys Rigaut, President of LYMEC, with Ahmed Dogan, leader of MRF, Bulgaria
Monday, October 13, 2008
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 Reacting to the recent turmoil on the world’s capital markets, the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) calls for deliberation instead of acting for the sake of acting. During a property market boom in the United States in the last couple of years, banks were happy to lend to low-income homeowners. When property prices tumbled, they struggled to pay their mortgage, which in effect caused the banks' trouble.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
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 The European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) welcomes the recent decision of the European Parliament’s Transport Committee to make Europe’s roads safer by cross-border enforcement of driving fines. Currently, drivers committing a traffic offence in another Member State often avoid paying the penalty for their misconduct. The new legislation ensures that in the future drivers will be able to be identified and fined for offences they commit anywhere in the European Union.
LYMEC President Aloys Rigaut states: 'The four types of offences which fall under the scope of the proposal (speeding, drink-driving, non-use of a seatbelt and crossing a red traffic light) are responsible for 75 percent of all road deaths across Europe. Such grave traffic violations are equally dangerous no matter in what Member State they are committed. Young people face a disproportionately high risk to get killed in traffic. Nearly 10.000 young people die on our roads every year. Therefore, we warmly welcome efforts to make our roads safer and call on all European drivers to drive responsibly, no matter where they are.'
Thursday, September 11, 2008
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 From the 25th to the 28th of August, LYMEC together with the European Liberal Forum (ELF) organized a Summer School on Europe in Practice in Brussels. The event was specifically for young people who were not so familiar with the EU yet. Over 30 participants from all across the European Union took part and got an inside view in the Union's decision making process. Using of the recently finished "Television without frontiers" directive as a case study, the Summer School examined the process from the viewpoints of different key players. Note: On the picture: Summer School participants at the European Parliament
Friday, August 29, 2008
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