Additionally Ralf Grahn has an interesting write up of the Libertas congress that happened yesterday:**
- Declan Ganley & Libertas: One big mess?
- For Libertas Brussels is Washington
- Libertas’s big catch: Lech Walesa
- Who are Libertas? And what?
So far the webpage of Libertas does not of all that much information about specific policies. I also was not able to find some list about the national canidates. That would be most interesting. According to the everything I have read so far the Polish chapter of Libertas is consists essentially of the League of Polish Families. A strongly anti-EU party.
The leading candidate from Spain seemed to have a fascinating vision for the future of the EU (via the anti-libertas blog):
And Senor Duran won one of the biggest cheers of day during his address, when he announced: "I want to find with Declan a new Europe, a white Europe, not a black Europe."
Maybe he just wants to say that he wants Europe to have bright future, but it sure sounds strange.
The head of the German Libertas branch is Carlos A. Gebauer. From what I found. He seems to be a standard issue economic liberal. His personal webpage contains a huge amount of his writings on all kinds of subjects. However, a quick search shows that only three contain anything about EU issues. This leaves it unclear, what kind of institutional structure of Europe Mr. Gebauer envisions. Furthermore his articles on European issues display the typical Eurosceptic structure of total outrage against some rather inconsequential and technical decision taken in Brussels.
Update: Vic van Rumpt has just informed me in the comments that Libertas will not be running in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Romania, and Slovakia.
*I did not only find the link to the blog on Juliens page, I also use the exact same turn of phrase to describe what it does. I hope Julien can forgive my for plagiarizing his work.
**Mmhhh... ok I actually copied these links from Julien as well...so why write a post at all. I guess I have to add some independent "analysis".
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Hey, don't worry!
As long as you mention my name to please my ego, you can copy-paste as much as you want. ;-)
As far as I understood it Libertas will not run in Germany since they did not manage to collect the necessary amount of signatures ...
They will not be running in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Romania, and Slovakia. So much for them being 'pan-European'...
Thanks a lot for that Information Vic van Rumpt!
You're very welcome, rz!
To give you all the information I currently have;
Countries where Libertas will almost certainly be running are:
Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom;
Where they're running under the name of a domestic party:
Italy, Portugal;
Not known yet:
Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovenia.
Why don't you write about the really interessting things like Koch-Mehrin?
rz you posted a question on my blog a while back, asking if I was on a hiatus. I was, but am now back in business! Do read me again!
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