A message from Tim Dier, Chairman of IYDU:
The International Young Democrat Union is delighted that Germany’s Junge Union will be hosting this year’s Council Meeting in Berlin between Wednesday 25 and Sunday 29 November 2009. November marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and this will be a key theme of the event. Participants should expect to meet interesting and engaging high-level speakers and be treated with great hospitality and friendliness. There will also be visits to points of interest in Berlin.
Registration will open shortly …

Christian, Edward and I recently returned from the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC, as part of the YBF group that head there every year. It is a meeting of the ‘conservative’ movement in the US with key speeches from the principal members of the movement – I recommend you watch the concluding speech from Rush Limbaugh (here) to get a taste of what it is like!
One of the groups we met over in DC was Students For Liberty, a forum of support for students and student organisations that …