It was an ill-fated attempt by the German President Franz-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) to defend the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, a German-Russian project to transport gas from Russia to Germany. In an interview, he claimed that the project remains one of…
Continue reading Nord Stream 2: Germany’s geopolitical blunder
Liberal International organised its 200th Executive Committee in Berlin on June 22nd – 24th. The theme of the event was “Delivering Climate Justice: Liberal Responses to the Paris Agreement”. The IFLRY Climate Change Programme members are deeply grateful for the…
Sehe unten für die deutsche Version dieses Artikels. / See below for the German version of this article. “is defined as a change in condition – mostly understood in a positive way. Progress and innovations promote each other,“ as Wikipedia…
Oceans play a crucial role in the regulation of the earth’s climate. That is why Melvin John & Ina Djuren, who attended the first week of COP23 on behalf of IFLRY, used the conference to get deeper insights into the…
GUMMERSBACH, GERMANY — From 15 to 21 September 2017, liberal youth leaders from across the globe gathered at the Theodor Heuss Academy of the Friedrich NaumannFoundation for the International Federation of Liberal Youth or IFLRY’s second series of the Training…
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On the third of September, 16 million Germans watched a TV debate between incumbent German chancellor Angela Merkel from the Christian Democrats (CDU) and her contestant Martin Schulz from the Social Democrats (SPD). The debate took place three weeks before…
Continue reading The German Election Debate: Why What Wasn’t Said Matters
Sehe unten für die deutsche Version dieses Artikels. / See below for the German version of this article. War in Europe, Putin sympathisers, Trump supporters and Brexit. Europe is changing, in some ways not for the better. Why? Because rather…
Germany is getting ready to have their general elections later this year, on the 24th of September. A crucial election for the liberal party Freie Demokratische Partei (FDP) which last election saw itself losing their seats in the German parliament.…
Great Britain is about to leave the European Union. Donald Trump has been elected as President of the United States. Populist parties are on the rise all over Europe. A series of events seem to shaken the global order in…
Continue reading JuLis International Camp, 3 to 5 March 2017
Dorien Lugt (Netherlands) and Jonas Hall-Andersen (Denmark) were on IFLRY’s delegation to the UN Climate Change Conference (COP22) in Marrakech this year. Besides this article on Germany’s climate roadmap, they wrote about their general impressions, the impact of the US…
