ZAGREB ZAGREB, March 26 (Hina) - An international congress of the European Liberal Youth (LYMEC), which is held for the first time in Croatia, opened in Zagreb on Friday with some 200 representatives of liberal youth organisations
from a number of European countries in attendance.
ZAGREB, March 26 (Hina) - An international congress of the European
Liberal Youth (LYMEC), which is held for the first time in Croatia,
opened in Zagreb on Friday with some 200 representatives of liberal
youth organisations from a number of European countries in
attendance.#L#
Among the participants were representatives of liberal parties
currently in power in Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
the Netherlands and Slovenia.
The congress will be held on March 27 and 28, the main topic being
elections for the European Parliament in June and a liberal election
platform.
LYMEC president Ellen Trane Norby of Denmark, who is running for the
European Parliament, said in her welcome speech the Liberal Youth
supported the enlargement of the EU.
LYMEC is a youth organisation of the European Liberal Democrats and
its members from Croatia are the People's Party (HNS), the Liberal
Party (LS), Libra, the Social Liberal Party (HSLS) and the Istrian
Democratic Assembly (IDS), whose leaders welcomed the participants in
the congress.
The congress is expected to adopt a political resolution which will
support Croatia's candidacy for EU membership in the next enlargement
round.
The congress started with a short film entitled "Croatia Welcomes
LYMEC" featuring young people from Zagreb who presented their opinions
about sexual education in school, abortion, the legalisation of light
drugs and same-sex marriages, as well as about whether the church was
interfering in politics.
(Hina) rml