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March 2008 - Posts
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The Young Liberals of Canada are pleased to announce the 2008 Summer Student Program. All Young Liberal between the ages of 18 to 26 are eligible to apply for these paid internships. Read More...
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29th of March 2008, Kokkola, Finland
Finnish Centre Youth’s President, MP Tuomo Puumala, runs for Vice President of Finnish
Centre Party
Finnish
Centre Youth’s Executive Committee is meeting at Kokkola, Finland
29th to 30th of March. FCY’s president Tuomo Puumala,
youngest parliamentarian in Finland,
has just revealed that he is running to be Vice President of Finnish Centre
Party. Finnish Centre Party has its Congress in June at Joensuu. Congress will
elect new party leadership: president, three vice presidents and party
secretary. Current party leader, prime minister Matti Vanhanen and party
secretary Jarmo Korhonen both will
probably continue, but there will be tight competition on vice presidents.
Current vice presidents are MP Paula Lehtomäki, Minister of Public
Administration and Local Government Mari Kiviniemi and MP Antti Rantakangas.
All of them are willing to continue. Other vice president candidates are at the
moment Tuomo Puumala, MP Timo
Kaunisto and MP Elsi Katainen.
Finnish
Centre Youth’s Executive Committee gives its strong support to Tuomo Puumala for his candidacy. Executive Committee
also discussed about local elections, which are held next fall, and adopted
annual report and finances.
www.keskustanuoret.fi
More
information:
International Officer Anna Ranki
anna.ranki@keskustanuoret.fi
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Did you know that Livewire, the Young Liberal national newsletter, has a distribution of over 9400 people? Read More...
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It takes a special Young Liberal to give up 10 hours on a Saturday to hunker down around a meeting table and hammer out a year long to-do list for campaigning, fundraising, recruitment, and communications. Luckily, Newfoundland and Labrador have a whole Read More...
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The annual congress of the jungfreisinnige schweiz jfs was opened by Ignazio Cassis, MP of the (TI), Lena Schneller, president of the jfs as well as Krizia Genini, president of the jfs ticino branch. At the congress a new executive committee was elected. Lena Schneller (ZH) was unanimously re-elected as president, as the two vice-presidents Adrian Michel (TG) and Philippe Nantermod (VS) were confirmed in their office. Likewise Stefano Rizzi (TI), treasurer, was re-elected, as well as Juliette Hotz (BE) and Simon Berther (GR). Furthermore the congress elected Brenda Maeder (TG), Jenny Beeler (ZG) and Nicola Pini (TI) as new board members and Alain Schreiner (ZH) as new International Officer.
Particularly, the congress dealt with the forthcoming merger with the Youth section of the LPS (another liberal youth party established mainly in the french part of Switzerland). Thus the bylaws were altered as preparation for the merger, on which the jfs council of delegates will definitely decide on 12 April 2008. For a transition period of one year two representatives of the Young Liberals Switzerland will take a seat in the executive committee of the jungfreisinnige schweiz. The election of these two young liberals will take place on 12 April 2008 as well.
After the formal part of the congress a panel discussion under the provocative title "English, official national language of Switzerland?" took place. Under the direction of Stefano Rizzi and Nicola Pini Ignazio Cassis (MP), Gabriele Gendotti (member of the Cantonal government Ticino), Daniela Lepori (delegate of the jungfreisinnige ticino), Philippe Nantermod (vice-president of jungfreisinnige schweiz), Philip Kristensen (political secretary of the FDP Switzerland) as well as Patrizia Friedrich Pescetti (member of Helvetia Latina) held a discussion about the language diversity in Switzerland, the new proposed language law as well as linguistic communication difficulties in Switzerland. All agreed of course that English is not applicable as official national language in Switzerland. Rather they proposed that the language knowledge in the national languages has to be deepened.
contact:
Alain Schreiner, International Officer
+41 79 743 32 63
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AZERBAIJAN LIBERAL YOUTH ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
On March 13, 2008 one more attack made against journalist in Azerbaijan. Mr. Agil Khalil, a journalist of opposition - minded Azadliq (Freedom) newspaper has been brutally beaten and stabbed by unknown persons following the coward attack made against him on February 22, 2008.
Azerbaijan Liberal Youth Association (ALYA) - as an organization supports freedom of the speech expresses its deep concern with continuing facts of brutal violation and aggression against journalist in the country.
We strongly condemn the attempt on life of Mr. Aqil Khalil, the independent journalist and call on law-enforcement bodies to investigate the case and punish peoples that committed this crime.
Azerbaijan Liberal Youth Association (ALYA) also calls on International Community to press on Government to take all the possible measures in order to stop the systematic attacks against freedom of press and to provide safety of mass media representatives.
We are deeply concerned at the increase in attacks and physical violence against journalists by unidentified assailants and call on Government to honour its commitments on freedom of expression and human rights.
Azerbaijan Liberal Youth Association (ALYA) considers that pressure, harassment and a series of violent attacks on journalists as well as the lack of effective, independent investigations into these incidents have had a chilling effect on the freedom of expression in the country.
Azerbaijan Liberal Youth Association (ALYA) once again raises concerns regarding attack against Mr. Aqil Khalil and hopes that authorities concerned will immediately investigate the case and find those who stand behind this vicious attack.
March 18, 2008
Press
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On 24th of March at 14:00 Azerbaijan Liberal Youth Association in coordination with Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (Germany) is organizing a seminar on “Li and ELDR: Aims, Structures and Principles at Irshad Hotel, Baku. The main purpose of the seminar is to give brief information about International Liberal Institutions that ALYA cooperates and to inform young leaders, political figures on above mentioned subject. Dr. Wolfgang John, Head of FNF project in Southern Caucasus, Arastun Orudjlu, Adviser of the project of the FNF in Azerbaijan representatives of ALYA, members of different organizations and NGO’s, students, political analysts, young politicians will attend the meeting
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Around 30 young European liberals gathered in Moldovan capital, Chisinau, from 6 to 9 March to discuss the future of Council of Europe in the context of EU enlargement. The seminar was co-organized with our Moldovan member organisation - the Youth of Read More...
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jfs: latest news release on Swiss foreign policy (EU relations)
Specialists and qualified people from Romania and Bulgaria: welcome to Switzerland!
The Young Liberals of Switzerland (jungfreisinnige schweiz jfs) embrace the so-called extension of the free movement of persons to Romania and Bulgaria. With this policy Switzerland will grant not only the same rights to citizens of the two newest EU-member states as to the rest of the EU, but will also get new opportunities and growth potentials. Switzerland will benefit from highly qualified people as well as from an unrestricted access to new markets. To fully seize these opportunities Switzerland must renounce any additional accompanying (protectionist) measures.
The Young Liberals of Switzerland (jfs) are delighted about the completion of negotiations on the extension of the free movement of persons to Romania and Bulgaria. This policy creates new opportunities to recruit urgently needed highly qualified workforce for Switzerland. Additionally, the Swiss will have the unrestrained chance to participate in the fast growth of the dynamic Romanian and Bulgarian economies. There is no danger of a so-called wave of migrants into Switzerland. Contingents for the transition period and eventual safety clauses are effective protective measures for more than the next ten years.
To mutually open up markets means to foster prosperity, stability and peace in the region. The inhabitants of Romania and Bulgaria are customers of the future – also for our products and services. Already today Swiss exports to Romania and Bulgaria exceed 1 bn Swiss Francs, the growth rates are sensational. This provides benefits not just for our exporters, but also for many Swiss suppliers and sub-contractors which keeps and even creates jobs in Switzerland. Hence, the free movement of persons enables Switzerland also in the future to grab a big slice of the "growth pie".
The Young Liberals of Switzerland call for a swift implementation after the upcoming signing of the protocol. The free movement of persons policy with Romania and Bulgaria must be adopted without any additional (protectionist) measures, as they proved to be expensive and redundant. The protocol contains already many safety elements which suffice entirely.
Contact for further information:
Lena Schneller, President of the jfs
+41 76 320 21 21
Adrian Ineichen, International Officer of the jfs
+41 76 309 09 65
Alain Schreiner, Deputy International Officer of the jfs
+41 79 743 32 63
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