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IMS elections: individual members' congress delegates
The IMS (Individual Membership Section) can elect 1 delegate to the congress. The elections will take place on-line from 20 March till 3 April.
How to nominate? Send your nomination to the LYMEC Secretariat stating the following: (1) Name and surname, (2) Age and gender, (3) contact information: email and mobile number (or other telephone number), (4) Country of residence, (5) Membership of political organisations – this can be the membership of a LYMEC member organisation, an ELDR member party or any other political organisation, (6) Membership of other organisations - these are non-political organisations, (7) Experience inside LYMEC(events attended etc) and (8)motivation to be an IMS delegate. Additionally you can include a picture and/or a CV. Please send all the information in word- or pdf-format.
Deadline for nominating is 1 March 2010 (11.59AM). The presentations of all candidates will be made available on lymec.org shortly after the deadline finishes.
Upcoming events
LYMEC seminar in Poland "Education as a location factor": 7-11 April.
LYMEC seminar and Congress in Sinaia (Romania): 27 April - 2 May.
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 European Liberal Youth - LYMEC welcomes the fact that José Manuel Barroso, current President of the European Commission and candidate for another term, today (Thursday, 3 September) published a 41-page document outlining his political visions for the next five years. The young liberals though are concerned that he published his document on the official website of the European Commission and are concerned that money from the EU budget could have been used to translate the document into all EU languages. LYMEC calls for an open and fair election and that every candidate has the same options for promoting his or her candidacy.
LYMEC President Aloys Rigaut states: 'This is the first time something that comes close to an EU government programme has been drafted, and we can only welcome such a symbol. The ALDE Group in the European Parliament sent to Mr Barroso a letter containing five key political demands, and it will certainly check if their points have been included, but we as European Liberal Youth will equally scrutinise this document in depth and make our voice heard.”
Thursday, September 03, 2009
 Over a thousand Young Democrats from all over the USA converged last weekend on Chicago, Illinois, for YDA’s biennial convention. The location of the Convention was a symbol of its own since Illinois's own, President Barack Obama, rallied young people from across the country to an overwhelming victory last November.
The Convention was notably the occasion of many traditional caucus meetings (LGBT, rural, labour, high school…) and training sessions on campaigning techniques. Among keynote speakers were the former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean, the mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, President Bill Clinton, and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
But the main item on the agenda was the hotly contested election for YDA’s national officers, which saw the election of President Crystal Strait, Executive VP Rod Snyder, VP Coleman Elridge, VP Isaac Robinson, VP Renee Hartley, Secretary Emily Robinson, and Treasurer Mark Newman – all with an impressive track record of action. A number of resolutions were also approved. The main hotly debated topics at the Convention were without surprise healthcare reform and marriage equality for gays and lesbians.
Note: Photo: Aloys Rigaut with newly elected YDA President, Crystal Strait, and Executive Vice-President, Rod Snyder.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
 From the 25th until 30th of July around 150 young liberals gathered at Hove Leir in Arendal, Norway, for the joint LYMEC/NUV summercamp. The summercamp this year was hosted by Norges Unge Venstre (NUV) and gathered about 40 international participants from all over Europe on top of the local participants from Norway. It was the first time that LYMEC organised its summercamp in conjunction with the summercamp of one of its member organisations.
LYMEC participants debated about climate change and developed an open letter to the Swedish EU presidency providing recommendations in preparation for the UN summit to be held in Copenhagen in December 2009.
LYMEC President Aloys Rigaut stated at the summercamp: 'Liberals are in government in Sweden and Denmark, and I am confident that they will do their utmost to make this UN summit a success. Of course this also depends on the good will of our partners throughout the world, but still, the EU can and should play a leadership role', before adding 'I am happy that this event could take place. NUV summercamp did definitely live up to its reputation! By our presence we also wanted to give support to NUV's cause for Norway to join the European Union as well as to their outstanding international work'.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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 The European Liberal Youth LYMEC strongly criticizes plans to grant US officials access to European bank data. Recently, member states have mandated the Presidency of the Council to negotiate new conditions under which the US will get unlimited access to private banking data.
The US wants to have access to a new European database that SWIFT, a huge inter-bank network, is setting up in Switzerland. Currently the US treasury already can access SWIFT's American database. SWIFT handles millions of transactions daily between banks and other financial institutions worldwide. It holds the data of some 8,000 banks and almost all transactions between banks from different EU member states are handled by it.
Reacting to this, LYMEC President Aloys Rigaut states: 'It is utterly inacceptable to negotiate a deal, that basically is about giving away the financial privacy of all Europeans, during the summer recess and without even involving the parliament. If the US gets automatic access to our financial data, there will be no legal protection against this for the individual citizen. We move more and more into the direction of a big brother state – and now this big brother is sharing his knowledge with his pals who are even more reckless when it comes to ignoring data protection.'
Sunday, August 09, 2009
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