New Pan-European Political Party runs into trouble

The European Union Parliament may review its decision to grant funding to the anti-Lisbon Treaty party Libertas. The move comes after Estonian MP Igor Gräzin, sent an affidavit to the EU Parliament on Feb. 3 disavowing his support

In the email Gräzin says, “I have never signed any papers asking for a recognition of Libertas as a political party in the EU and all corresponding claims are utterly untrue.”

Libertas started as a campaign pressure group opposed to the Lisbon Treaty in the Irish referendum on the subject. Last year, founder Declan Ganley announced that it would transform itself into a pan-European political party to contest the EU Parliamentary elections.

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Declan Ganley has announced his intention to turn the Libertas campaign organisation into a pan-European political party. Libertas was central to the Irish ‘No’ on the Lisbon treaty referendum in 2008.

Ganley says that the new political party will field candidates in all 27 European Union states in the upcoming European Parliamentary elections in June 2009. It will run on a platform of democratizing the European institutions, aiming for an elected president and commission.

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