1. LYMEC Connecting European Liberal Youth

2. LYMEC European Liberal Youth
Established in 1976 as the Liberal and Radical Youth Movement of the European Community
Youth organisation of ALDE Party and ALDE Group
57 Member Organisations (MO) in 38 Countries
Individual Membership since 1997
Individual Members Section

3. Secretariat Bureau MO’s Congress IMS
Working Groups
Committee on Discipline & Arbitrage
Internal Auditors
Members of MO’s
Individual Members of LYMEC

5. ALDE Party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Established in 1976
Formerly European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) until 2012
Over 60 member parties, thousands of individual members
Party President Hans van Baalen, MEP (Netherlands)

6. ALDE Party 6 liberal Prime Ministers:
Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
Charles Michel, Prime Minister of Belgium
Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
Jüri Ratas, Prime Minister of Estonia
Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of The Netherlands
Juha Sipilä, Prime Minister of Finland

7. ALDE Party 5 Liberal Commissioners:
Andrus Ansip, Vice President and Commissioner for Digital Single Market
Violeta Bulc, Commissioner for Transport
Cecilia Malmström, Commissioner for Trade
Margarethe Vestager, Commissioner for Competition
Věra Jourová, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality

8. ALDE Group
Alliance of European Liberals and Democrats in the European Parliament
Consists of MEPs from two European parties:
ALDE Party
European Democrats Party (EDP)
68 Members of European Parliament (57 ALDE Party)
Fourth largest group in the EP (EPP 217, S&D 189, ECR 74)
Leader Guy Verhofstadt, MEP (Belgium)

9. ELF European Liberal Forum The foundation of ALDE Party
Members are think-tanks, political foundations and institutes
Close to 40 members from Europe and EU Neighbourhood countries
LYMEC and ALDE Party are partners

10. LYMEC in practice Congresses Seminars Trainings and capacity building
Campaigns
Online Working Groups
Regional cooperation: Nordics, Baltics, Balkans, (Benelux)
Encouraging twinnings

11. LYMEC pushing the political agenda
Statements
Press releases
Publications
Blog posts
campaigns
Twitter campaigns

19. LYMEC priorities
Democracy and structural reform (institutional reform, EMU)
Defence and cyber security
Digital market & trade
Education and labour market reform
Environment, climate change and energy
Migration
+ Decision to feed digitisation into everything

20. LYMEC online www.lymec.eu Twitter: @lymec
Facebook: European Liberal Youth (LYMEC)
YouTube: Young Liberals