The EU-Turkey deal was celebrated by politicians all around Europe as an example of successful European cooperation on a highly pressing issue. It seems to have been effective in discouraging illegal crossings from Turkey to Greece. But is this really…
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Brexit from an IN-campaigner’s perspective – Ab Brightman
On June the 23rd I finally fell into bed at 2am, after finishing the final preparations for our Get Out The Vote operation in Oxford with the rest of the Liberal Democrat IN campaign team. Exhausted but wired for the…
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Bulgarian Politics: Banning Burqas and Restricting Voting Rights – Gyulfie Arnaudova
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…
Introducing the Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine – Arthur Kharythonov
The Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine (LDLU) is a Ukrainian non-governmental and non-profitable organization that aims to consolidate a new generation of representatives of the Ukrainian people. Its headquarters are situated in Kyiv. We sincerely believe that a healthy civil…
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Get up, Stand up Europe, Stand up for Union – Jeunes Radicaux de Gauche
Voir ci-dessous pour la version française de cet article. – See below for the French version of this article. We, the children of the European Union, founded in a desire for peace. We, the youth of the Erasmus generation, unhindered…
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Hello from the Outside – Lars Brandsås
David Cameron warned the citizens of Great Britain of following in the footsteps of Norway in the question of a continued membership in the European Union, and the Prime Minister could not have been more right. Today we are witnessing…
Speaking up in the streets of Istanbul – Alvise Pérez
With Dutch journalist Ebru Umar, who was released from arrest by the Turkish authorities yesterday, still being denied her right to leave the country, we decided to subtitle this video by Alvise Pérez. Alvise was attending IFLRY’s General Assembly Istanbul,…
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Britain’s Leave EU Campaign is wrong: we’re all in this together – Ab Brightman
My homeland of Great Britain has a curious cultural mentality. At any one time we believe ourselves to be of utmost importance to the rest of the world, yet also view the rest of the world as isolated from the…
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Northern Europe’s unfair Euro advantage – Christian Holm
All too often I see Northern European liberals and conservatives blaming the people of Southern European states such as Greece for their current economic misery, and suggesting that if Greece lowered wages enough and deregulated enough, economic recovery would be…
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We’ll always have Paris, but it’s not enough – Anna Abrahamsson
Why the EU needs to step up its 2030 game: In December, world leaders gathered at Le Bourget, Paris, for the UN climate negotiations, COP21. After both tense and intense negotiations, the international community managed to put together – for…
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