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
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…
Continue reading Laura’s Blog #8: What it’s like to work for the Democratic Alliance
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’
After 20 years of negotiations, the free trade agreement between the European Union and the South American common market (Mercosur) becomes reality. It is an agreement comprising political, environmental and social cooperation in two areas totalling 773 million people and…
Reflections on a liberal youth organization’s project work in Africa “I’ll be spending the summer in Zambia working on our project on women’s rights” I say while trying as hard as I can not to make a facial expression that…
It hasn’t actually been too long since I last wrote one of these Brupdates, but, since then, all hell has broken loose in the UK. This may sound like an episode of House of Cards, but, The Commons, under the…
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…
International volunteering is a popular choice for people all around the world who want to do their bit in ‘making the world a better place’. Yet the booming business of ‘voluntourism’ has been under attack for perpetuating the ‘white saviour…
For countless Americans, owning a house is part of the American dream, but many younger generations are taking a different path, sometimeseven avoiding homeownership altogether. As of the end of 2018, just one in three millennials ages 34 and under…
Continue reading Is Homeownership Out of Reach for Younger Americans?
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…
Continue reading Laura’s Blog #6: Hiking and Preparing for IFLRY’s GA
