LYMEC is led by German politician Alexander Plahr ( FDP, Germany ), who was elected to a two-year term as LYMEC President in May 2010, and has a collective membership of over 200, 000 young liberal Europeans.

The Free Democratic Party (), abbreviated to FDP, is a classical liberal political party in Germany.

The FDP is led by Philipp Rösler and currently serves as the junior coalition partner to the Union ( Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union ) in the German federal government.

Philipp Rösler is FDP chairman, having succeeded Guido Westerwelle, the party's second-longest serving chairman, in May 2011.

A key objective of the FDP is the " strengthening of freedom and individual responsibility ".

The FDP opposes phasing out of nuclear power. Regarding the EEG ( or Feed-in tariff ) the website of the FDP states that its policy is for more frequent review of the rates at which renewable generators are paid, in order to prevent what it describes as overpayment ( Überförderungen ).

The FDP supports gay rights ; former party leader Guido Westerwelle is openly gay.

The FDP is opposed to wiretapping, although the FDP originally supported ' Großer Lauschangriff '.

One objective of the FDP is the promotion of pre-school education.

The FDP describes itself as the pro-European party, although the minority national liberal faction is soft eurosceptic.

The Greens and the SPD came one seat short of a governing majority, but after multiple negotiations about coalitions of SPD and Greens with either the FDP or The Left, the SPD and Greens decided to form a minority government, which was possible because under the constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia a plurality of seats is sufficient to elect a minister-president.

In 2010 Geneva City Council was made up of two representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), one member of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), one member of the Green Party and one member of the À gauche Toute party.

Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( born 21 March 1927 ) is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party ( FDP ).

As of 2010, the Zurich City Council is made up of four representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), two members of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), two members of the Green Party and one member of the CVP ( Christian Democratic Party ).

The Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), a classical liberal party, is the preferred partner of any CDU government since the CDU and FDP have similar attitudes towards fiscal policy.

Since 21 July 2005 Marianne Thomann-Stahl ( FDP ) is the leader of the administration ( Regierungspräsidentin ).

In human anatomy, the flexor digitorum profundus ( FDP, Latin for " deep bender of the fingers ") is a muscle in the forearm that flexes the fingers ( also known as digits ).

In many primates, the FDP is fused with the flexor pollicis longus ( FPL ).

Walter Scheel (; born 8 July 1919 ) is a German politician ( FDP ).

There is only one chapter of FDP still active, in Holmes County, Mississippi.

The FDP opposed the 1996 spelling reform ; as a result, their election manifestos are written in the previously conventional spelling.

Large sections of the SPD increasingly opposed his security policy while most of the FDP politicians strongly supported that policy ; while representatives of the left wing of the Social Democratic Party opposed reduction of the state expenditures, the FDP began proposing a monetarist economic policy.

Critics inside and outside the FDP have accused him of focusing on public relations, as opposed to developing and promoting sound public policy, especially in the election campaign of 2002.

The beacon code and altitude were historically displayed verbatim on the radar scope next to the target, however modernization has extended the radar data processor with a flight data processor, or FDP.

The FDP automatically assigns beacon codes to flight plans, and when that beacon code is received from an aircraft, the computer can associate it with flight plan information to display immediately useful data, such as aircraft callsign, the aircraft's next navigational fix, assigned and current altitude, etc.

The FDP, which strongly supports human rights, civil liberties, and internationalism, has shifted from the centre to the centre-right over time.

The FDP supports strong competition laws and a minimum standard of welfare protection for every citizen.

The FDP supports tuition fees to support the funding of universities.

He ran for Federal Chancellor in 2002, but his preferred CDU / CSU and FDP coalition lost against the SPD candidate Gerhard Schröder's SPD-Green alliance.

On 28 September 2008, the CSU failed to gain an absolute majority, attaining 43 %, of the vote in the Bavaria state election for the first time since 1966 on a percentage basis and was forced into a coalition with the FDP.

For example, Helmut Kohl's CDU governed for years in coalition with the Free Democratic Party ( FDP ), from 1998 to 2005 Gerhard Schröder's SPD was in power with the Greens and from 2009 Angela Merkel, CDU / CSU was in power with the FDP.

At other times, for example after the 2002 federal election, a coalition between the FDP and CDU / CSU was impossible primarily because of the weak results of the FDP.

In energy policy, the FDP calls for a combination of nuclear, coal, oil and gas and renewable energy for electricity production.

The FDP aims for the introduction of a citizen's dividend ( Bürgergeld ), which collects all the tax-financed social welfare and social security funds of the state.

The FDP calls for the establishment of full-day schools and the high school diploma after twelve years of schooling.

The Christian Democrats lost votes compared to 2002, reaching only 35. 2 %, and failed to get a majority for a " black-yellow " government of CDU / CSU and liberal FDP.

When the votes were counted, the party doubled its federal vote from 1. 9 million ( PDS result in 2002 ) to more than 4 million — including an electoral breakthrough in industrial Saarland where, for the first time in a western state, it surpassed the Greens and FDP due, in large part to Lafontaine's popularity and Saarland roots.

Taking advantage of the historic political changes occurring in East Germany, Kohl presented a ten point plan for " Overcoming of the division of Germany and Europe " without consulting his coalition partner, the FDP, or the Western Allies.

Most deputies of SPD and FDP did not take part in the voting, as not voting had the same effect as voting for Brandt.

The SPD quickly gained popularity and succeeded in forming a social-liberal coalition with the FDP following the 1969 federal election, forcing the CDU out of power for the first time in their history.

During the Spiegel scandal in 1961 and 1962, he was arrested and jailed for 103 days, until Franz Josef Strauß was forced to resign as Minister of the Defense under continuing protest from the public and the resignation of the FDP cabinet members.

In 1969 Gerhard Schröder ran for the Office of the Federal President ( supported by CDU and NPD ), but he was beaten by Gustav Heinemann, the nominee of the SPD ( supported by FDP ), at the third ballot with 49. 4 % to 48. 8 % of the votes of the Federal Assembly.

In great apes the belly of the FDP has a separate tendon for the FDP.

The issue of improving relations with Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany made for an increasingly aggressive tone in public debates but it was a huge step forward when Willy Brandt and the Foreign Minister, Walther Scheel ( FDP ) negotiated agreements with all three countries ( Moscow Agreement, August 1970, Warsaw Agreement, December 1970, Four Power Agreement over the status of West Berlin in 1971 and an agreement on relations between West and East Germany, signed in December 1972 ).