This article originally appeared in Spanish on the website of Grupo Joven Fundación Libertad. You can find the original here. I am sure that all of us, at some point, have studied communism. We study its philosophers, its leaders, we…
Continue reading Interview with Ludmila: Communism In Living Flesh
IFLRY’s Istanbul boot camp, titled “Taking Ideas to the Streets”, from 1-4 July was IFLRY’s first in-person event after an entire year of online webinars, mainly due to the rising threat of the COVID19 pandemic. Therefore, there was a lot…
This article is part of a two-part interview regarding the situation in East Turkestan, a region in the People’s Republic of China that is home to several minorities, predominantly Uyghurs, who are suffering from severe represessions by the Chinese government.…
Continue reading Interview with Koen Stoop from the World Uyghur Congress – Part 2
Find Luke‘s other articles On Brussels here. On many social issues, the EU has long been split. Since the eastwards expansion began back in 2004, more and more countries that are deeply conservative have joined the bloc. This has led to showdowns…
Continue reading On Brussels: Budapest — The New Battle Front
Two articles brought my attention to what is happening in the Chinese province of East Turkistan (widely referred to as Xinjiang) in the past few months, although it is not an entirely new issue. The first was published in The…
Continue reading Interview with Koen Stoop from the World Uyghur Congress – Part 1
European or National Champions. While that term might be reminiscent of the dramatic penalty shootout last Sunday, which led to Italy being crowned winners of the Euros 2020, it is also a reemerging theme in political capitals around the world.…
Find our other interviews with liberal and democratic youth organisations here. Back in March, the Netherlands elected a new Tweede Kamer — the lower house of the Dutch parliament. Soon after, Libel editors Eduardo Aviles and Krijn van Eeden interviewed…
Continue reading Interview with Willemijn Krans, International Officer of JOVD
I might have babbled about the Finnish local election in some of my previous posts and lucky for everyone involved, it’s now over. So, what new conversation culture am I talking about? Some would argue that I should have had…
Continue reading Finland: Same Old Municipal Election, New Conversation Culture
Find Luke‘s other articles On Brussels here. There is now a distinct, tangible light at the end of the impossibly long Covid-19 tunnel. Brussels is now approaching that light. But this past month has thrown up fresh sets of challenges involving two…
On Sunday evening the Belarusian KGB (yes, they didn’t change that after 1991) hijacked Ryanair flight 4978 en route from Athens to Vilnius. The flight was delayed for several hours and only after that time, we have started to learn…
