Climate change threatens the most basic human needs, from food and water to human settlement patterns. Climate change is expected to trigger increased population movements within and across borders, as a result of increasingly extreme weather events, sea-level rise and…
We are now heading to a new security situation within the European Union, with a more aggressive Russia as well as a more shattered European Union. In the Nordic-Baltic region, not all liberal parties have agreed upon whether a NATO-membership…
As liberalism is challenged by populists and nationalists from both left and right, we will have to prepare ourselves thoroughly in order to safeguard liberal values across Europe. Therefore, we offer a unique opportunity to combine a high quality capacity-building…
At this seminar we are launching the new publication “fighting climate change with the market”. This book aims to present and evaluate the main accomplishments and failures of the EU ETS to date, and look at the main changes of…
Parties to the Paris Agreement have agreed to pursue actions to limit global warming to 1.5 °C. With a present warming of about 1.0 °C and persistently rising global greenhouse gas emissions, the changes of meeting the goal looks bleaker…
The one-day workshop at Fores in Stockholm gathered researchers and experts in the field to collaboratively pinpoint and address the most pressing aspects of data-driven platform economies, all within the ongoing ELF-project on Developing Platform Economies[1] The event took place…
In the middle of the hottest summer ever recorded in Sweden, 17 engaged liberals from 9 different countries gathered for a 3-day event dedicated to the struggle for stronger LGBT-rights in Europe and its neighborhood. The schedule allowed participants to…
This year’s Pride Seminar offers a mix of closed sessions for you as well as participation in public EuroPride events. Participants to this Pride Seminar are from nine countries, all with varying experiences of promoting and defending LGBT rights. The…
As most ELF members will doubtlessly concur, explaining just what a think-tank does – and does not – do, is not an easy task. Quantifying the results of the think-tanks work, on request from board members, financial supporters or policy…