On the night of the early July election, Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull waited till midnight to address the media. Despite enjoying sky-high approval ratings after toppling former Prime Minister Tony Abbott in a party-room coup, a series of concessions to…
Continue reading The Australian Elections: a Mixed Result for Liberals
Sweden has in just over six months moved from taking in the highest number of refugees per capita to practically closing its borders. This turn was not unexpected to many international commenters, claiming that this was the inevitable result of…
Continue reading Let the Right Lesson be Learnt from Sweden – Simon Härnqvist
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…
Continue reading Brexit from an IN-campaigner’s perspective – Ab Brightman
Much has been thought, said and written recently about Germany’s asylum practice. Weekly or even daily, it seems, there are new facts and figures, proposals and demonstrations on whether to open or close borders, on humanitarian commitment and welcoming culture.…
Continue reading Refugees in Germany: the Asylum Process – Nathalia Schomerus
On the 12th of December, 196 Parties adopted the Paris Agreement: the first major international agreement on the issue of climate change since the 1992 Kyoto Protocol. On Earth Day, the 22nd of April, over 170 Parties signed the agreement.…
Continue reading Bonn Climate Change Conference: Implementing the Paris Agreement – Justin Kaiser
Since the 4th October 2015 Legislative elections, Portugal has remained somewhat politically divided. The manoeuvre undertaken by the Socialist party, which allied itself with the Portuguese Communist Party and with the Left Block to form a minority government with parliamentary…
Continue reading Portugal’s Controversial Education Reforms – Jorge de Jesus
As some of you may know, Sweden is not a member of NATO. Sweden has, though, a deep and long standing history of cooperation with NATO and NATO members bilaterally. In this article I will explain Sweden’s history with NATO and how the…
Continue reading Sweden and NATO, an Alliance Without Obligations – Christoffer Karlsson
Last week I started writing this blog in the beautiful North Shan State in Myanmar, where I gave a one-week training on internal party organisation and campaigning to a group of twenty senior politicians. This is part of the curriculum…
Continue reading IFLRY President’s Update from Myanmar – Pauline Kastermans
America has a substantial problem with opioid addictions. Prescription drug overdose rates have more than doubled over the past fifteen years, and deaths from opioid use have tripled in that time. In states across the country, heroin and prescription medication…
Continue reading The U.S. Opioid Addiction Crisis: Congress Is Not Doing Enough – Danika Kimball
Following its 12th Annual General Assembly in Johannesburg, South Africa, the African Liberal Network (ALN) has grown to become the largest network of political parties in Africa. Indicative of Africa’s strong need for and demand of liberal democratic parties, the…
