Since my childhood I’ve imagined New York to be a place full of life and color, where people go to make their dreams into reality and, finally, at the age of 19 I got the chance to visit the great…
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Ukraine and the Paris Agreement
Ukraine is the second largest country in Europe, located in its southeastern part. According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine, the population is 42,030,832 as of 1st June of 2019[i]. Average population density is 74.3 persons / km² with…
Brexit Update: We’re Heading for No Deal
Sound the Brexit klaxon! I’ve now come to the conclusion that I’ve been overly optimistic in these updates! Within the last fortnight, I’ve concluded that the UK is probably going to drop out of the EU without a deal. It’ll…
Laura’s Blog #4: Summer is Coming
Meet Laura Fagerlund. Laura is a Vice President of IFLRY and a Council member of the Swedish Youth of Finland. She is currently living in South Africa, where she is doing an internship with the main opposition party, the Democratic…
Interview with Marc Anguera
Marc Anguera Gisbert is Membership Officer at JNC — Catalonia, where he previously served as Environmental Officer. He holds a degree in Physics from the University of Barcelona and works as an environmental consultant for the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) multinational professional…
A Renewed Europe?
A Renewed Europe? Welcome to the European Union, where travel between countries is visa-free, trade is relatively unrestricted and capital can move freely from country to country. Even though it has been largely built by Christian Democrats and Social Democrats,…
Laura’s Blog #3: Settling in
Meet Laura Fagerlund. Laura is a Vice President of IFLRY and a Council member of the Swedish Youth of Finland. She is currently living in South Africa, where she is doing an internship with the main opposition party, the Democratic…
Interview with Geir Finnsson, One of the Founders of ‘Viðreisn’
Meet Geir Finnsson, a 27-year-old young liberal from Iceland, who, despite the young age, has already played a crucial role in shaping liberalism in his country. Not only was he among the founders of the Icelandic liberal party ‘Viðreisn’, but…
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Brexit Update: More Uncertainty to Come
It’s a wiser man than I who can predict just what on earth will happen next in British politics. Not so long ago, I wrote about what I believed a Boris Johnson premiership could do to/for Brexit. It wasn’t exactly…
The Dutch Climate Agreement
In order to achieve the aims of the Paris agreement, the Dutch government passed a law that obliges itself to do so and let the people of the country decide on how to do it. In 2015, 195 members of…