Youth call on leaders to protect and renew freedom

World leaders must not only protect freedom and democracy, but also renew it. This is the call made by participants in the International Youth Freedom Conference in Middelburg in a joint final declaration. The two hundred young people from more than fifty countries presented this so-called Treaty of Middelburg on Saturday afternoon to Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans, the Zeeland Acting King's Commissioner Hugo de Jonge and Mayor Yvonne van Mas…