European Students For Liberty

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You can now watch the full conversation on our YouTube.

Do you agree? If so, join us today to help us spread the ideas of liberty and small government, to remove this obstacle to a freer future!

https://t.co/qsv6VfXsMK

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Most people would actually benefit from reforms toward a smaller government, yet are still against them.

This was a challenge that Bryan Caplan outlined for the pro-liberty movement during our panel on Radical Visions for Liberty at LibertyCon Madrid earlier this year.

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Meet Mario, our volunteer from Italy.

In the past year, he wrote a book on healthcare economics, organised several conferences about the threat Russia poses to Europe, and went on to fundraise for two ambulances for Ukraine.

And he is not yet done!

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[Students for Liberty Polska @sflpoland]

Three days of inspiring conversations, international connections, and meaningful exchange of ideas! 🫡

[End Conscription! @EndConscription]

We just spent a week in Ukraine for @ESFLiberty Ukrainian Reneissance conference. It was a privilege to witness firsthand the courage and determination of Ukrainians resisting Russian aggression.

[European Students For Liberty @ESFLiberty]

We are back in Armenia! 🇦🇲

At their first inaugural event, a discussion on why free societies prosper, the team covered free trade, basic principles of liberalism, and much more.

Stay tuned for more highlights from the team!

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Check out the highlights of this year's Ukrainian Renaissance and Impact Lab: https://t.co/GmRRl3jZco

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In its fourth year, our Ukrainian Renaissance conference headed to Kyiv for the first time.

Read on our blog what the event was about!

[Craig Duddy @craigduddyecon]

My interview with @GeorgeSelgin on all things monetary theory is now live, and you can watch it on YouTube at the link below! We discuss topics from Keynes and the Great Depression, to the eurozone and the use of monetary tools over fiscal policy!

https://t.co/bXQ2lelbmF

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Last week, the fourth edition of Ukrainian Renaissance took place, for the first time in Kyiv! 💛💙

Over the three days of panels, workshops and networking, we were joined by 152 guests from 13 countries.

Thank you to all who joined us, and stay tuned for more highlights!

[Mercatus Center @mercatus]

In honor of the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, Research Fellow @joshrowley_ spent a semester rereading Adam Smith’s text in full.

The result: a 12-part series connecting Smith’s arguments to today’s debates over debt, trade, banking, taxation, and more.

Explore the series: https://t.co/u0tVvDBLsE

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We are on for the final day of Ukrainian Renaissance Kyiv!

Right now, we are discussing Ukraine's European integration.

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Second day of our Ukrainian Renaissance conference in Kyiv going strong. 💪

[European Students For Liberty @ESFLiberty]

Ukrainian Renaissance 2026 kicked off today in Kyiv!

See you back tomorrow. 😊

[@levelsio @levelsio]

As someone who lives in Portugal which already stops every single package you get from outside EU with no exceptions for a decade or more:

I can tell you how this will go

From now on if you receive a package from outside EU, it'll first go missing for weeks and nobody will know where it is, then you'll receive an email from your country's customs agency

They'll make you login to some extremely unusable and outdated web portal which breaks half the time and where you have to classify your shipment in one of 10,000 confusing category codes

Depending on the category code you'll pay a different tax rate, sometimes it's 5% sometimes it's 60%

Then you have to pay the customs duty in some archaic way that will also be broken half the time

And then you'll finally receive your package from outside EU after months

Experiencing this for a few times you'll realize you will never ever try to order or receive anything from outside EU ever because the ordeal is too painful and expensive

I get asked a lot here by people from US to test out new products (like the guy who made the Minimal Phone) and it's just literally impossible for me to receive it even for testing. I tried to classify it as samples for testing but you need to go through a bureaucratic process of insane lengths to get that through so I just gave up

Realistically all this does is make Europeans live even more in the stone ages, as now they can't use modern AI, nor get modern products from outside EU because it'll be too much hassle to order

[European Students For Liberty @ESFLiberty]

This is not only an addition to an already high tax burden in Europe, but also an 'inconvenience tax'.

The tardiness and clunkiness of customs procedures will cost us all time spent on filling in forms and standing in queues - time taken from more productive endeavours.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

From today, customs duties apply to e-commerce parcels worth up to €150 entering the EU.

30 million Europeans work in retail; it's our our largest private-sector employer.

And the surge in low-value online imports has put our retailers at an unfair disadvantage.

Too many of these products also fail to meet EU safety standards, putting consumers at risk.

Today's change is about restoring fairness for European businesses and better protecting our consumers.

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Learn more at https://t.co/SxzIMlovSH!

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Ukrainian Renaissance Kyiv kicks off today at 6pm! 😎

Are you joining us? 👀

[European Students For Liberty @ESFLiberty]

We and the Impact Lab group are looking forward to seeing you at this year's Ukrainian Renaissance on Thursday! 😎

https://t.co/SxzIMlovSH

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Meet our 2026 Impact Lab cohort!

For the first time, we are hosting our project management workshop with volunteers from around Europe in Kyiv, thanks to the support of @atlasnetwork.