Telegram of condolences to Norway
 
Dear colleagues,
 
European Liberal Youth is outraged by the atrocities in Utoya and Oslo, crimes of unimaginable proportion in modern Europe. LYMEC’s Bureau was especially shocked by the brutality in AUF’s youth camp in Utoya.
 
We would like to express our sincere condolences to your organisation, its members and Norwegian citizens with hope you will come out of this as an even stronger and more open society than Norway has already proved to be.
 
Our thoughts are with you,
 
Alexander Plahr
LYMEC President
 
Joint statement of LYMEC, YFJ, ECOSY, IUSY, YEPP, EDS, DEMYC, EFAy and JEF
 
The double attacks in Norway on Friday, 22 July 2011 shocked the whole world. The brutality of these acts is incomprehensible and the violence that has taken place is completely unjustifiable. Our thoughts go out to the victims and their friends and relatives, and to all those who were affected by these acts. The undersigned organisations are horrified by this violence against our colleagues and friends in AUF (Norwegian Labour Youth). This is an attack against all organisations that stand for democracy.
 
As organisations representing democratic young people from across Europe we stand behind the words of Eskil Pedersen, President of AUF: “...we will never give up in our struggle for what we believe in. We will, as the Prime Minster Jens Stoltenberg said earlier, meet terror with more democracy.”
 
We are convinced that the only response to such acts is more democracy, more openness and more understanding. Therefore, we will continue our work to further strengthen democracy and human rights.