Spain faces a lot of issues these days: the rate of unemployment within society has reached more than 15 %, youth unemployment hit the 30 % mark, the Catalonia conflict rose up again -and now another election. Only seven months…
Continue reading Fourth Election in Four Years- Still no End in Sight
Nation states are a thing of stability for many: something that’s existed for decades, even centuries, and there are no way maps change. However, the current world map is fairly young, as for example South Sudan became independent in 2011.…
Continue reading (In)dependence on the World Map in the 2020s
It’s the Brexit deadline that wasn’t, then almost was, but then again wasn’t. Britain’s ‘do or die’ Halloween exit from the EU ended up being nothing more than unfulfillable hyperbole. Warnings that Britain would “explode” if the Halloween deadline was…
Meet Claudia Gamon, a young liberal from Austria, who is fighting for a united Europe with liberal values. Former Deputy National Chairwoman of JUNOS, the youth wing of the Austrian liberal party NEOS and an IFRLY member, she has been…
Continue reading Interview with Claudia Gamon, a young Austrian MEP
When thinking about liberalism in Italy, we can start by saying immediately that our country has a longstanding tradition of political liberalism, tracing back to the years of its national unification. Indeed, liberals were great Italian statesmen, such as Prime…
Continue reading Europe and the Atlantic for a Young Italian Liberal
Meet Katalin Cseh, a young liberal from Hungary, who is fighting to represent youth both at the national and European level. In 2015, Katalin co-founded the pro-European and liberal Movement Momentum with eight other young Hungarians. Currently, she is a…
Continue reading Interview with Katalin Cseh, One of the Founders of Momentum Movement
Local elections were held all across Hungary last Sunday, voters were electing mayors and assembly members for 5 years. The Budapest mayor election was particularly significant for Hungary’s opposition, which scored an incredible victory against the ruling party (Fidesz) incumbent,…
Continue reading The Hungarian Opposition Celebrates: ‘We Have Taken back Budapest’
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…
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…
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,…
