On the 12th of December, 196 Parties adopted the Paris Agreement: the first major international agreement on the issue of climate change since the 1992 Kyoto Protocol. On Earth Day, the 22nd of April, over 170 Parties signed the agreement.…
Continue reading Bonn Climate Change Conference: Implementing the Paris Agreement – Justin Kaiser
Since the 4th October 2015 Legislative elections, Portugal has remained somewhat politically divided. The manoeuvre undertaken by the Socialist party, which allied itself with the Portuguese Communist Party and with the Left Block to form a minority government with parliamentary…
Continue reading Portugal’s Controversial Education Reforms – Jorge de Jesus
As some of you may know, Sweden is not a member of NATO. Sweden has, though, a deep and long standing history of cooperation with NATO and NATO members bilaterally. In this article I will explain Sweden’s history with NATO and how the…
Continue reading Sweden and NATO, an Alliance Without Obligations – Christoffer Karlsson
Last week I started writing this blog in the beautiful North Shan State in Myanmar, where I gave a one-week training on internal party organisation and campaigning to a group of twenty senior politicians. This is part of the curriculum…
Continue reading IFLRY President’s Update from Myanmar – Pauline Kastermans
Ver más abajo para la versión española de esta entrevista. / See below for the Spanish version of this interview. The potential exit of United Kingdom from the European Union (generally referred to as Brexit) would not just affect British…
Continue reading Brexit: Alvise Pérez’s Perspective from Leeds, England
იხილეთ ქვემოთ სტატიის ქართული ვერსია / see below for the Georgian version of this article. Last week was one of the best ones I can remember; liberals from all over the world gathered in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi. On…
Continue reading A Surge of Liberals in Tbilisi – Sandro Sarukhanishvili
Виж по-долу за българската версия на тази статия. / See below for the Bulgarian version of this article. This article will look at the debate on banning the burqa in Bulgaria from a Muslim viewpoint, trying to explain the core…
Climate change is a global problem. Norway is a rather small country. Why should we care? It is easy to say that a country like Norway, with barely the population of a Chinese city, cannot make a difference on big…
Continue reading Can a Small Country Make a Difference? – Peter Riseng
The Syrian refugee crisis is the largest humanitarian disaster since WW2. 13.5 million people need humanitarian assistance within Syria. 4.6 million refugees are on the run from ISIS and the authoritarian regime of Syria. 6.6 million people are currently displaced within…
Continue reading The Refugee Crisis: It Is All about Perspective – Camilla Westvik
What do young people think and feel? Not only worried parents wonder about that, society does so too. Because of this, the SINUS-institute Germany tries to answer this question every four years. After they published this year’s results, there was…
Continue reading German Youth: Desiring Harmony, or Simply Boring? – Laura Schieritz
