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President's message
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Hello,
Welcome to our website! European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) is the youth wing of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform (ELDR) Party. We strive to promote our values - freedom, human rights, democracy - and make a political impact throughout the diversity of our continent. Be a freedom fighter, come and join us!
Yours sincerely,
Aloys Rigaut
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 Already the second Constitutional Court of an EU Member State has ruled the implementation of the data retention directive (directive 2006/24/EC) and the subsequent general storage of citizens' communication data as unconstitutional: first the Romanian Constitutional Court (Curtea Constituţională a României), and now this morning the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht).
LYMEC President Aloys Rigaut reacted to the news: “We can only warmly welcome such judgement! This is yet another blow to the directive which required member states to store communication data of all their citizens for at least six months. While the actual content of phone calls and emails is not stored, the persons involved in the communication as well as all surrounding data is. For a phone call this means telephone number, name and address of the caller and the person called, duration of the call, in case of mobile phones the locations from and to where the call was made. For emails the name, address and IP-address of all persons involved, time of sending, as well as the whole header of the email message has to be stored. That data is collected for 500 million citizens and kept for six up to twenty-four months. Is that proportional to the terrorist threat? We do not think so.”
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
 Today the European Parliament voted 378-196 to reject the SWIFT bank data sharing deal with the United States. Members of European Parliament resisted pressure from the US to continue a nine-month interim agreement allowing the United States of America access to financial transaction data from SWIFT, an international banking transfer system.
Aloys Rigaut, President of the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC) reacted to the news of the vote: “The European Parliament for the first time exercised its new powers under the Treaty of Lisbon, rejecting this scandalous agreement which would have given away the privacy of the very citizens they represent. We applaud the Parliamentarians who across party line opposed this dubious proposal. We are especially proud of the role liberals played in shaping this broad majority, not least based on the critical report of liberal rapporteur Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert.”
Note: LYMEC recently met with the ALDE group, discussing the SWIFT issue as well as the broader privacy campaign run by LYMEC
Thursday, February 11, 2010
 Yesterday the new European Commission was confirmed by the European Parliament. Mr Barroso and his 26-member cabinet received 488 yes votes, 137 against and 72 abstentions.
Reacting to the news, Aloys Rigaut, President of the European Liberal Youth LYMEC stated: “We are happy that now finally the time of standstill is over - the Treaty of Lisbon is in force and the European Commission is complete. We liberals now expect from the College of Commissioners to immediately start tackling the Union’s challenges. It has been several months of institutional wrangle and it is now high time to get back to work: too many dossiers are on hold, citizens expect actions after last year's EP elections.”
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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 This week the LYMEC Bureau met in Brussels with representatives of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the liberal group in the European Parliament.
Apart from meeting several other ALDE key contacts, discussing collaboration, the leadership of LYMEC met with Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck MEP, President of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR). The talks focused on the creation of the External Action Service of the European Union and the involvement of Parliament in setting it up.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
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