The foundation is mourning Otto Graf Lambsdorff
In English, please read the obituary from the Liberal International: In Memoriam Graf Lambsdorff
The foundation’s obituary is available in German, Arabic and Hebrew (forthcoming)
Freedom Forum Palestine (FFP) 3rd annual conference on “Liberalism”
The Freedom Forum Palestine (FFP) in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty will conduct the 3rd annual conference on “Secularism” , on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at the Best Eastern Hotel in Ramallah from 9:00 until 17:30. Click here to view the conference agenda.Final_draft-_conference_program-2009
For more info please visit www.freedompal.org
Young Entrepreneurs Palestine (YEP) Final Ceremony
YEP in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty will conduct its final ceremony for this year on Tuesday 8 December 2009. The ceremony will take place at Vatche restaurant in Ramallah between 14-16. The event will present YEPs 2009 activities, seminars and workshops . For more info please visit www.yep.ps
Happy Adha Feast
The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty wishes all our Moslim friends and partners a happy and joyful feast Eid-greetings-2009
Arab and European Liberals Discuss Migration Policies at Brussels Meetings
A senior delegation of the Network of Arab Liberals (NAL) visited Brussels from 3-6 November 2009 for meetings with the European Commission and liberal leaders at the European Parliament. The meetings were part of a program co-sponsored by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (FNF) entitled “Liberal Approaches to Sustainable Migration Policies in the Mediterranean Region” and were a follow-up to internal discussions of the Network held in Tunis in August of this year. Mr. Hazem Kawasmi from Palestine participated in this event in Brussels.
“Towards an Arab Coalition for Freedom of Association & the Integrity of Civil Society in the Arab World”
24-25 October 2009, Broumana – Lebanon
44 representatives of Arab CSOs from ten Arab countries joined the regional conference “Towards an Arab Coalition for Freedom of Association & Integrity of Civil Society in the Arab World”, held in Broumana / Lebanon from 24 – 25 October 2009.
Report on the seminar ” Globalization & Market economy”
(The report is available in English only)
Date : 6-18. September 2009
Participant: Reuben Yanir – Project Manager, Economic Department of the Peres Center for Peace
I was given the opportunity by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation to participate in a seminar entitled: “Globalization & The Economic Crisis” that took place between the 6th – 18th of September. The seminar was held in a very interesting and unique global atmosphere: collapsing of banks, reservations regarding generations of successful economic methods, countries bailout plans and rising questions of new world order etc..
“Europe, A Continent United?” – Panel discussion in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
More than 60 guests assembled to attend the panel discussion organized by the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation (FNF) Amman Office, in partnership with the German Embassy Amman. Among them: Ambassadors and other diplomats from Europe and beyond, as well as over 20 members of the Jordanian Foreign Service and dozens of friends and partners of FNF in Jordan.
Liberal International’s 56th Congress held in Cairo
In late October 2009, approx. 300 delegates assembled for the 56th Congress of Liberal International(LI). LI is the world-wide organization of Liberal political parties, movements and individuals, founded in April 1947 in Oxford U.K. After Marrakech in 2006, the Congress took place only for the second time in the Arab world. Read more »
Are there liberal tendencies in the 18th Knesset?
This was the theme of an evening discussion organised by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (FNF) for its alumni and old as well as new friends. The event took place at Beit Zioney America in Tel Aviv on October 19, 2009. Speakers were liberals from all shades of the political spectrum – Shulamit Aloni, Prof. Uriel Reichman and Hemi Doron. The discussion was moderated by Hanita Eshtai, director-general of the Forum for Liberal Thinking, FNF’s eldest partner in Israel.