Find Luke‘s other articles On Brussels here. In Paris, anger is palpable. In Oslo, the winds of change have reached the ballot box. In Brussels, the EU27 held their collective breath as Germany voted. It’s been several weeks that have seen change…
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On Brussels: Kabul Earthquake
Find Luke‘s other articles On Brussels here. The EU has a very new and very sudden problem: Afghanistan. In less than a fortnight, the Taliban has swept across the perpetually unstable country, taking city after city. On 15 August, the militia reached…
Nord Stream 2: Germany’s geopolitical blunder
It was an ill-fated attempt by the German President Franz-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) to defend the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a German-Russian project to transport gas from Russia to Germany. In an interview, he claimed that the project remains one of…
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LIEC 2018 Berlin – Fringe IFLRY CCP
Liberal International organised its 200th Executive Committee in Berlin on June 22nd – 24th. The theme of the event was “Delivering Climate Justice: Liberal Responses to the Paris Agreement”. The IFLRY Climate Change Programme members are deeply grateful for the…
Progress: Who, when and most of all why?
Sehe unten für die deutsche Version dieses Artikels. / See below for the German version of this article. “is defined as a change in condition – mostly understood in a positive way. Progress and innovations promote each other,“ as Wikipedia…
IFLRY @ COP23: It’s all about Oceans
Oceans play a crucial role in the regulation of the earth’s climate. That is why Melvin John & Ina Djuren, who attended the first week of COP23 on behalf of IFLRY, used the conference to get deeper insights into the…
IFLRY Holds its Second Training of Trainers
GUMMERSBACH, GERMANY — From 15 to 21 September 2017, liberal youth leaders from across the globe gathered at the Theodor Heuss Academy of the Friedrich NaumannFoundation for the International Federation of Liberal Youth or IFLRY’s second series of the Training…
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The German Election Debate: Why What Wasn’t Said Matters
On the third of September, 16 million Germans watched a TV debate between incumbent German chancellor Angela Merkel from the Christian Democrats (CDU) and her contestant Martin Schulz from the Social Democrats (SPD). The debate took place three weeks before…
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Europa – Quo vadis?
Sehe unten für die deutsche Version dieses Artikels. / See below for the German version of this article. War in Europe, Putin sympathisers, Trump supporters and Brexit. Europe is changing, in some ways not for the better. Why? Because rather…
JuLis Congress
Germany is getting ready to have their general elections later this year, on the 24th of September. A crucial election for the liberal party Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP) which last election saw itself losing their seats in the German parliament.…