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European Liberal Youth

Acronym: LYMEC

General Information

Identification Code: 979276720920-77
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Entity Form: not-for-profit association
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 3/11/2016
Last Update: 3/27/2024
EP Accredited Number: 6

Mission & Interests

Goals: As the youth wing of ALDE Party, our main goal is to connect like-minded organisations and young people from across Europe. We also represent them in Brussels, and maintain the appropriate links with our mother party, our parliamentary group Renew Europe, the ALDE Party, and its MEPs. Besides attending several congresses, meetings, events in the EP we also organise an annual summer academy for young people in the Parliament together with the Renew Europe Group. We also hold bilateral discussions with the members (MEPS) of the Renew Europe Group.
Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Banking and financial services
  • Borders and security
  • Budget
  • Business and industry
  • Climate action
  • Communication
  • Competition
  • Consumers
  • Culture
  • Culture and media
  • Customs
  • Digital economy and society
  • Economy, finance and the euro
  • Education and training
  • Employment and social affairs
  • Energy
  • Enlargement
  • Environment
  • European neighbourhood policy
  • External relations
  • Food safety
  • Foreign affairs and security policy
  • Fraud prevention
  • Humanitarian aid and civil protection
  • Institutional affairs
  • International co-operation and development
  • Justice and fundamental rights
  • Migration and asylum
  • Public health
  • Regional policy
  • Research and innovation
  • Single market
  • Taxation
  • Trade
  • Trans-European Networks
  • Youth
Levels of Interest:
  • european

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: We follow the youth-related topics such as the EU youth strategy, Horizon 2020, Youth Employment initiative etc. We also have ongoing working groups and campaigns related to free trade, migration, fighting populism, minority rights, education and defence. Lately, we have been especially active on the topics of banning unpaid internships and the European Youth Test/Check initiative. Moreover, we are influencing specific legislative files debated and voted upon in the European Parliament. We represent thereby the position of our members and deliver on the advocacy work. We mainly influence our MEPs in the Renew Europe Group with whom we have regular meetings and contacts, often in the European Parliament itself. The latest actions we have been leading were focused on EU Diplomacy - Foreign affairs related files where we shared with the Renew AFET committee members our proposals for the external relations of the EU as part of a publication on the topic. We organised several meetings with them so our policy proposals could be channelled in the decision-making process. We also launched a campaign to ban unpaid internship and therefore reached out to our MEPs when the vote took place on the resolution on youth unemployment presented by MEP Dragos Pislaru, a couple of weeks ago. No work should be unpaid and we made our voice heard in the interest of the European youth when the Parliament was adopting this key resolution. We will work with Renew MEPS on upcoming work, employment and youth related files as well. In general, we bring the voices of young liberals to the decision-makers and mobilise our resources on files close to their/our priorities. This year being the 'Year of the Youth' we plan to be even more proactive and plan to influence the agenda on several topics. Not only have we put forward proposals on institutional reform during the Conference on the Future of Europe but we do want to shape the legislative processes in the upcoming digital, environment and rule of law related files. Finally, we also attempt to channel the voices of young people in light of the war in Ukraine. We sent out several communications and met several decision-makers to bring proposals on the way forward and how to have an impact on the ground for the young people of Ukraine. We have a key role to play on the longer-term perspectives and we aim at having the decision-makers on board to enable a sustainable support to those in needs.
Communication Activities: Publications: Tackling Regional Disparities in Europe through Growth (2015) Defending Europe - the military future of our continent (2016) The New Europeans (2017) Vote, vote, vote - European Electoral Systems (2018) Liberal visions for Europe - Make your choice! (2019) Values first? Promoting EU Norms through Trade (2020) EU Diplomacy fit for the future (2021) Ban on unpaid internship (2022) Liberal Solutions for a Digital Europe (2022) "Voices from Ukraine" (2022-2023) Liberal Solutions for a Sustainable Europe (2023)
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: Rue d'Idalie 11, 6eme étageboite 2
Post Code: 1050
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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EU Office

Address: Rue d'Idalie 11, 6eme étageboite 2
Post Code: 1050
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data

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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 2
Members50 Percent: 1
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 5
Members F T E: 3

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: https://www.lymec.eu/members
Organisation Members: ALDE Party European Liberal Forum IFLRY - International Federation of Liberal Youth European Youth Forum