Today the policies page of Libertas.eu still tells us that the Libertas programme for a better Europe will be published on their site in the coming weeks.
The front page reminds us that some 17 days remain until the start of the European elections.
Luckily, the term “week” can still be used in the plural.
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When Libertas says something, like being the most visited political party web site in the world, it is impossible to get credible information to back it up, as told on Irish election: Libertas Says They Dominate The Interwebz (15 May 2009).
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Because of the lack of credible and substantial information, you can read the posts on The Libertas Collection instead.
Ralf Grahn
Showing posts with label policies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label policies. Show all posts
Sunday, 17 May 2009
Friday, 8 May 2009
European elections: Libertas by bumpkins for dupes?
Only some 26 days remain before the first polling stations open in the European elections, and we see that the new contender Libertas has stepped up its increasingly shrill campaign against the Lisbon Treaty, now approved by the parliaments of 26 EU member states.
Let us turn to the policies Libertas offers voters for the following five year term of the European Parliament.
It is getting late in the European election campaign, but we are still offered the same text on the Policies page: The Libertas programme for a better Europe will be published on this site in the coming weeks.
That should be enough to disqualifiy Libertas from pretending to be a serious challenger to the existing EU order.
But we have pledged to study the so called core principles on which Libertas’ case rests.
The fifth and final one tells us:
“A lean EU: Cut the number of meetings in Brussels by 50 % in 2010.”
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You’re kidding?
You don’t need much sophistication to know that the European Union is a complex structure. The briefest ABC book on the EU tells you that much.
If you splash millions on creating a new political force intent on representing EU citizens in the European Parliament, you can be expected to familiar with at least the basics.
If you really want to cut the number of meetings and create a lean European Union, you have to give the union a simpler design.
This is not going to happen in 2010, although ideas concerning the future would be most welcome.
Even if the Lisbon Treaty enters into force, it is only going to improve the functioning of the European Union in an incremental way, without simplifying the basic structure.
If you campaign against the Lisbon Treaty, you work to preserve the current Treaty of Nice. It is hard to be more anti-lean than that.
Demanding Formula 1 performance from a horse cart is a joke. Elevating this slogan to the status of core principle reveals the paucity of knowledge and ideas.
This opens up two possible interpretations: Either you are (perhaps in good faith) ignorant bumpkins, or you are cynical enough to know full well what you are doing, assuming that your potential voters are gullible dupes, ready to be taken for a ride.
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Where are the details?
Libertas offers no clues as to which 50 per cent of meetings in Brussels should be scrapped next year.
Since no serious treatment of their proposal is possible, let us play along with their joke or scam.
Only meetings in Brussels are targeted. This could mean that the European Parliament is free to continue its hated monthly sessions in Strasbourg. Libertas has conjured up a mythical “Brussels” of axis of evil proportions, so perhaps the EP would have to sacrifice its convenient mini-sessions in Brussels to fill its part of the quota.
I am at a loss to propose which meetings the part executive and civil service of the EU, the Commission, should cancel. It is hard to prepare, to manage and to coordinate public bodies without meetings, even if they consume time and resources. I have to leave it at this: If Libertas has a working solution, I am sure that every government on earth will be queueing up to hear it.
Most of the “behind closed doors” dealings Libertas is foaming about take place within the Council structures, where the representatives of the member states meet and where the national administrations send committee members to steer the Commission.
If Libertas wants to undo the iron grip of the member states on the running of the European Union, it should say so. What I am fairly sure of is that such a reform is incompatible with a quest to maintain the current Treaty of Nice.
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Without serious proposals, Libertas idea is mush. Elevating the reduction of meetings to a core principle only tells us where the rot is.
Cynicism or stupidity, it’s your choice.
Ralf Grahn
Let us turn to the policies Libertas offers voters for the following five year term of the European Parliament.
It is getting late in the European election campaign, but we are still offered the same text on the Policies page: The Libertas programme for a better Europe will be published on this site in the coming weeks.
That should be enough to disqualifiy Libertas from pretending to be a serious challenger to the existing EU order.
But we have pledged to study the so called core principles on which Libertas’ case rests.
The fifth and final one tells us:
“A lean EU: Cut the number of meetings in Brussels by 50 % in 2010.”
***
You’re kidding?
You don’t need much sophistication to know that the European Union is a complex structure. The briefest ABC book on the EU tells you that much.
If you splash millions on creating a new political force intent on representing EU citizens in the European Parliament, you can be expected to familiar with at least the basics.
If you really want to cut the number of meetings and create a lean European Union, you have to give the union a simpler design.
This is not going to happen in 2010, although ideas concerning the future would be most welcome.
Even if the Lisbon Treaty enters into force, it is only going to improve the functioning of the European Union in an incremental way, without simplifying the basic structure.
If you campaign against the Lisbon Treaty, you work to preserve the current Treaty of Nice. It is hard to be more anti-lean than that.
Demanding Formula 1 performance from a horse cart is a joke. Elevating this slogan to the status of core principle reveals the paucity of knowledge and ideas.
This opens up two possible interpretations: Either you are (perhaps in good faith) ignorant bumpkins, or you are cynical enough to know full well what you are doing, assuming that your potential voters are gullible dupes, ready to be taken for a ride.
***
Where are the details?
Libertas offers no clues as to which 50 per cent of meetings in Brussels should be scrapped next year.
Since no serious treatment of their proposal is possible, let us play along with their joke or scam.
Only meetings in Brussels are targeted. This could mean that the European Parliament is free to continue its hated monthly sessions in Strasbourg. Libertas has conjured up a mythical “Brussels” of axis of evil proportions, so perhaps the EP would have to sacrifice its convenient mini-sessions in Brussels to fill its part of the quota.
I am at a loss to propose which meetings the part executive and civil service of the EU, the Commission, should cancel. It is hard to prepare, to manage and to coordinate public bodies without meetings, even if they consume time and resources. I have to leave it at this: If Libertas has a working solution, I am sure that every government on earth will be queueing up to hear it.
Most of the “behind closed doors” dealings Libertas is foaming about take place within the Council structures, where the representatives of the member states meet and where the national administrations send committee members to steer the Commission.
If Libertas wants to undo the iron grip of the member states on the running of the European Union, it should say so. What I am fairly sure of is that such a reform is incompatible with a quest to maintain the current Treaty of Nice.
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Without serious proposals, Libertas idea is mush. Elevating the reduction of meetings to a core principle only tells us where the rot is.
Cynicism or stupidity, it’s your choice.
Ralf Grahn
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
European elections: Libertas saving our money?
Someone might see an ironic contradiction in the two announcements we see today on the web pages of Libertas.eu:
1) The European elections begin in some 28 days.
2) Policies: The Libertas programme for a better Europe will be published on this site in the coming weeks.
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Waiting for Godot, we turn to what Libertas has on offer regarding the future of Europe and the next five years of legislative work in the European Parliament.
The third core principle of Libertas is:
“Save money: €10 billion in savings to be identified by the Commission in the next financial year.”
Sounds great, doesn’t it? At least until you take a closer look. Let’s do that.
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Long term budget
The European Union lives by the multiannual financial framework essentially set by the heads of state or government of the member states, currently from 2007 to 2013, although formalised by an agreement between the institutions.
Income and expenditure hover around 1 per cent of gross national income (GNI) annually, far from a federal budget of proportions.
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Annual budget
The framework is the basis for the expectations of the EU member states and for recipients of EU funds until the end of 2013.
The annual budgets are prepared within this framework by the Commission, and approved by the Council and the Euroepan Parliament.
Based on the existing framework and legitimate expectations, the Commission presented its preliminary draft budget for 2010 on 29 April 2009.
Mainly within the framework constraints, but with new measures towards an economic recovery, the proposed sum total of expenditure grows to € 139 billion. This translates into about 284 euros per EU resident.
How does a radical proposal for savings fit the economic circumstances and the timetable?
Even if the final vote on the budget takes place in December, the financial framework is in place until the end of 2013, and the European Council has given green light to certain recovery measures.
The budget exercise for 2010 is well under way. The Commission will take the opinions of the Council and the European Parliament into account before its final proposal. The Council and the EP will then fix their positions, before having to reconcile their views before final approval.
Nothing tells me that any of these institutions is going to veer off course to heed calls for unspecified budget cuts.
Libertas’ “core principle” is a figment of their imagination, meant to be swallowed by uninformed voters.
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Who is responsible?
We have to admit that calls for profound change, including budget reform, can be justified even if they have no immediate chance of success. Every reform starts from modest beginnings until it gains acceptance.
What makes Libertas’ call hypocritical and cowardly is that they don’t even try to tell us where to cut. The savings should be identified by the Commission, without Libertas taking any responsibility.
In the realm of sanctimonious bluster, this is worth an Oscar.
The draft budget contains € 59 billion spending on agriculture and € 49.4 billion on structural funds. This is about 78 per cent of the total budget, and it is mainly spent in the member states.
Does Lisbertas want to cut back our dependence on subsidy-driven farming? Do they want to terminate “cohesion” funding in rich member states, or deprive the new member states of their structural funds?
Surely, a new political party with a “pan-European vision” knows where to save and has the guts to tell us(?)
The rest of the proposed budget (about 21.8 per cent) is shared between competitiveness, citizenship, freedom, security and justice, external action and administrative expenditure.
Even if the sums are minor in comparison, we need to be told about possible savings.
Ralf Grahn
P.S. A few observations outside the theme of this post: Libertas has introduced a certain professionalism and dynamic in its campaigning techniques during these last days. They contact people through e-mails and social media. Today there are several additional posts on their central web pages. Behind language barriers activists in different member states seem to be free to concoct wildly diverging messages without much outside notice.
In terms of (inter)active campaigning, the competition is still in the starting blocks. Despite the fact that the policies we have looked at this far have been shown to be populist rubbish, the established Europarties ignore Libertas at their peril.
1) The European elections begin in some 28 days.
2) Policies: The Libertas programme for a better Europe will be published on this site in the coming weeks.
***
Waiting for Godot, we turn to what Libertas has on offer regarding the future of Europe and the next five years of legislative work in the European Parliament.
The third core principle of Libertas is:
“Save money: €10 billion in savings to be identified by the Commission in the next financial year.”
Sounds great, doesn’t it? At least until you take a closer look. Let’s do that.
***
Long term budget
The European Union lives by the multiannual financial framework essentially set by the heads of state or government of the member states, currently from 2007 to 2013, although formalised by an agreement between the institutions.
Income and expenditure hover around 1 per cent of gross national income (GNI) annually, far from a federal budget of proportions.
***
Annual budget
The framework is the basis for the expectations of the EU member states and for recipients of EU funds until the end of 2013.
The annual budgets are prepared within this framework by the Commission, and approved by the Council and the Euroepan Parliament.
Based on the existing framework and legitimate expectations, the Commission presented its preliminary draft budget for 2010 on 29 April 2009.
Mainly within the framework constraints, but with new measures towards an economic recovery, the proposed sum total of expenditure grows to € 139 billion. This translates into about 284 euros per EU resident.
How does a radical proposal for savings fit the economic circumstances and the timetable?
Even if the final vote on the budget takes place in December, the financial framework is in place until the end of 2013, and the European Council has given green light to certain recovery measures.
The budget exercise for 2010 is well under way. The Commission will take the opinions of the Council and the European Parliament into account before its final proposal. The Council and the EP will then fix their positions, before having to reconcile their views before final approval.
Nothing tells me that any of these institutions is going to veer off course to heed calls for unspecified budget cuts.
Libertas’ “core principle” is a figment of their imagination, meant to be swallowed by uninformed voters.
***
Who is responsible?
We have to admit that calls for profound change, including budget reform, can be justified even if they have no immediate chance of success. Every reform starts from modest beginnings until it gains acceptance.
What makes Libertas’ call hypocritical and cowardly is that they don’t even try to tell us where to cut. The savings should be identified by the Commission, without Libertas taking any responsibility.
In the realm of sanctimonious bluster, this is worth an Oscar.
The draft budget contains € 59 billion spending on agriculture and € 49.4 billion on structural funds. This is about 78 per cent of the total budget, and it is mainly spent in the member states.
Does Lisbertas want to cut back our dependence on subsidy-driven farming? Do they want to terminate “cohesion” funding in rich member states, or deprive the new member states of their structural funds?
Surely, a new political party with a “pan-European vision” knows where to save and has the guts to tell us(?)
The rest of the proposed budget (about 21.8 per cent) is shared between competitiveness, citizenship, freedom, security and justice, external action and administrative expenditure.
Even if the sums are minor in comparison, we need to be told about possible savings.
Ralf Grahn
P.S. A few observations outside the theme of this post: Libertas has introduced a certain professionalism and dynamic in its campaigning techniques during these last days. They contact people through e-mails and social media. Today there are several additional posts on their central web pages. Behind language barriers activists in different member states seem to be free to concoct wildly diverging messages without much outside notice.
In terms of (inter)active campaigning, the competition is still in the starting blocks. Despite the fact that the policies we have looked at this far have been shown to be populist rubbish, the established Europarties ignore Libertas at their peril.
Monday, 4 May 2009
European elections: Libertas’ principles ─ what do they mean?
We are some 31 days from the start of the European elections. A few moments ago, the policies page of Libertas.eu still told us that:
“The Libertas programme for a better Europe will be published on this site in the coming weeks.”
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First principle
The problem is that a simplistic slogan is actually much harder to understand than a detailed explanation, because it raises a number of questions: What do they mean by that? How are they going to achieve it? What are the consequences?
If Libertas is serious about its politics, it should start detailing its policies and their consequences immediately.
In the meanwhile, without a proper Libertas programme, we will have to make do with what is on offer.
Libertas tells us that it is committed to five core principles. We take one at a time, and try to figure out what they mean.
We start with the first one.
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Hold the EU accountable: Only elected politicians should make the law, says Libertas.
Is Libertas smashing through an open door?
Council?
The supreme law-making body of the European Union is the Council, where the ministers of the EU member states approve the directives and regulations.
Most people would accept the ministers as elected politicians, although their mandate is national.
Is this the problem for Libertas? Should national level politicians be disqualified from EU level decisions?
If Libertas wants to abolish the Council, it should say so. Likewise, if it wants to turn the Council into a second chamber (Senate) of the European Parliament, with directly elected Senators.
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European Parliament?
The slogan can hardly be directed against the directly elected European Parliament, which participates in many areas of EU legislation. The EP’s participation would increase and develop under the Treaty of Lisbon, so representative democracy at EU level improves during the next parliamentary term, if the treaty enters into force.
Presumably Libertas means to improve representative democracy further by its legislative action within the EP, since it is standing in the elections to the European Parliament.
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Commission?
The rallying cry can hardly target the Commission, either. The Commission drafts legislative proposals, which are adopted by the Council and often the European Parliament.
I find it hard to believe that Libertas would want to ban the strictly limited cases of delegated legislation by the Commission. Any national or European political system would choke, if the daily fluctuating import values of vegetables or the latest food additive or other details of implementation would have to go the full parliamentary route.
Is Libertas against the Commission’s power to propose legal acts? If that is the case, why not say so?
The rationale for the Commission’s right of proposal is its task to look after the general interest. If Libertas wants to weaken the general interest, which interests does it want to strengthen?
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National parliaments
National parliaments already make the domestic laws, so the aim of Libertas’ slogan has to be something else. And why should Libertas speak about domestic law-making in a campaign for the European Parliament?
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Perplexing
As we see, the meaning and the implications of Libertas’ first core principle are far from clear. Honestly, I don’t know what to make of it.
If Libertas wants to maintain what we already have, why launch it as a battle cry, as the first principle of its campaign?
If they want something different, why not tell voters what it is and why it is important?
What do we vote for, if we cast our ballot for a Libertas candidate?
Libertas’ first principle leaves us hanging in suspense.
Ralf Grahn
“The Libertas programme for a better Europe will be published on this site in the coming weeks.”
***
First principle
The problem is that a simplistic slogan is actually much harder to understand than a detailed explanation, because it raises a number of questions: What do they mean by that? How are they going to achieve it? What are the consequences?
If Libertas is serious about its politics, it should start detailing its policies and their consequences immediately.
In the meanwhile, without a proper Libertas programme, we will have to make do with what is on offer.
Libertas tells us that it is committed to five core principles. We take one at a time, and try to figure out what they mean.
We start with the first one.
***
Hold the EU accountable: Only elected politicians should make the law, says Libertas.
Is Libertas smashing through an open door?
Council?
The supreme law-making body of the European Union is the Council, where the ministers of the EU member states approve the directives and regulations.
Most people would accept the ministers as elected politicians, although their mandate is national.
Is this the problem for Libertas? Should national level politicians be disqualified from EU level decisions?
If Libertas wants to abolish the Council, it should say so. Likewise, if it wants to turn the Council into a second chamber (Senate) of the European Parliament, with directly elected Senators.
**
European Parliament?
The slogan can hardly be directed against the directly elected European Parliament, which participates in many areas of EU legislation. The EP’s participation would increase and develop under the Treaty of Lisbon, so representative democracy at EU level improves during the next parliamentary term, if the treaty enters into force.
Presumably Libertas means to improve representative democracy further by its legislative action within the EP, since it is standing in the elections to the European Parliament.
**
Commission?
The rallying cry can hardly target the Commission, either. The Commission drafts legislative proposals, which are adopted by the Council and often the European Parliament.
I find it hard to believe that Libertas would want to ban the strictly limited cases of delegated legislation by the Commission. Any national or European political system would choke, if the daily fluctuating import values of vegetables or the latest food additive or other details of implementation would have to go the full parliamentary route.
Is Libertas against the Commission’s power to propose legal acts? If that is the case, why not say so?
The rationale for the Commission’s right of proposal is its task to look after the general interest. If Libertas wants to weaken the general interest, which interests does it want to strengthen?
***
National parliaments
National parliaments already make the domestic laws, so the aim of Libertas’ slogan has to be something else. And why should Libertas speak about domestic law-making in a campaign for the European Parliament?
***
Perplexing
As we see, the meaning and the implications of Libertas’ first core principle are far from clear. Honestly, I don’t know what to make of it.
If Libertas wants to maintain what we already have, why launch it as a battle cry, as the first principle of its campaign?
If they want something different, why not tell voters what it is and why it is important?
What do we vote for, if we cast our ballot for a Libertas candidate?
Libertas’ first principle leaves us hanging in suspense.
Ralf Grahn
European elections: Libertas’ new accountability
Declan Ganley has gone further in his desire for detailed scrutiny than customary exchanges between political competitors. As far as I have been able to ascertain, he has repeatedly initiated or threatened to commence court proceedings against media and journalists, who have published critical views about his endeavours.
On Libertas’ web pages chairman Declan Ganley is now quoted as saying:
“Our candidates are actively trying to usher in a new era of accountability and are not scared to have their actions scrutinised by the people they are seeking represent.”
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I welcome this new era of accountability, on two conditions:
1) Declan Ganley includes himself and Libertas in this promise of accountability.
2) Libertas starts detailing its political positions and their consequences.
Rigorously complying with these two simple conditions would do the European Union and the European elections a service. To say nothing about Libertas.
Ralf Grahn
On Libertas’ web pages chairman Declan Ganley is now quoted as saying:
“Our candidates are actively trying to usher in a new era of accountability and are not scared to have their actions scrutinised by the people they are seeking represent.”
***
I welcome this new era of accountability, on two conditions:
1) Declan Ganley includes himself and Libertas in this promise of accountability.
2) Libertas starts detailing its political positions and their consequences.
Rigorously complying with these two simple conditions would do the European Union and the European elections a service. To say nothing about Libertas.
Ralf Grahn
Saturday, 2 May 2009
For Libertas Brussels is Washington
Most of Libertas’s political message seems to be cloned on the age-old platform of American populist movements and politicians: Vote for us to clean up Washington!
The only real difference is that Brussels has replaced Washington.
After muckraking demands for disclosure of EU expenses, budget cuts and reducing the number of meetings, there is not much policy left.
Interestingly, Libertas has been extremely shy of disclosing its own affairs. As long as no credible information is given, the only reasonable assumption is that Libertas is a vanity project of Declan Ganley and that its courtiers and national chapters depend on his largesse.
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Policies
The Libertas web site reminds us that the European elections start in some 33 days, but we are still greeted by this disclaimer about policies:
“The Libertas programme for a better Europe will be published on this site in the coming weeks.”
For a new political movement, there may have been excuses for this message until its great gathering, but it remains posted on the web page even after the first Libertas congress in Rome.
Ralf Grahn
The only real difference is that Brussels has replaced Washington.
After muckraking demands for disclosure of EU expenses, budget cuts and reducing the number of meetings, there is not much policy left.
Interestingly, Libertas has been extremely shy of disclosing its own affairs. As long as no credible information is given, the only reasonable assumption is that Libertas is a vanity project of Declan Ganley and that its courtiers and national chapters depend on his largesse.
***
Policies
The Libertas web site reminds us that the European elections start in some 33 days, but we are still greeted by this disclaimer about policies:
“The Libertas programme for a better Europe will be published on this site in the coming weeks.”
For a new political movement, there may have been excuses for this message until its great gathering, but it remains posted on the web page even after the first Libertas congress in Rome.
Ralf Grahn
Declan Ganley & Libertas: One big mess?
Declan Ganley + Libertas = 1 big mess?
Wasting Ganley’s money?
Making up claims?
When are we going to see a coherent programme for a better Europe?
Are Libertas’s calls for accountability and democracy a reactionary recipe for gridlock or a ticket to profound EU reform?
***
Ahead of the European elections, Libertas raises many questions, but offers few answers.
At this moment, very little in the way of credible policies has come out of Libertas’s first congress. This makes rational analysis difficult, which begs the question if it is the unintended result of amateurism or the chosen mode of operation for a disparate populist movement.
Despite the dearth of materials, I am going to dedicate a few blog posts to aspects of what Libertas is offering voters ahead of the European elections, to the extent that rational analysis is possible.
Sadly, I come to the conclusion that there is not enough material open to rational discussion. Don’t blame me, if voids have to be filled by speculation.
***
Venue
The chosen venue was Rome, officially where the EEC and Euratom Treaties of Rome were signed.
But Ganley’s recruitment drive and largesse seem to have attracted mostly nationalists, rejectionists and conservative Catholics from the hard line right of national politics. Thus, the seat of the Bishop of Rome may have resonated at a deeper level with many of the star performers and participants.
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Membership
By the looks of it, there were hundreds of participants. Libertas, which has become known for presenting nice round figures, claims 1,000.
On Friday Declan Ganley made the following claim:
“Over a million of you have joined us through libertas.eu so far.”
A million Libertas members is an astonishing claim. It would be nice to see such an assertion substantiated with a suitable breakdown between national chapters.
Ralf Grahn
Wasting Ganley’s money?
Making up claims?
When are we going to see a coherent programme for a better Europe?
Are Libertas’s calls for accountability and democracy a reactionary recipe for gridlock or a ticket to profound EU reform?
***
Ahead of the European elections, Libertas raises many questions, but offers few answers.
At this moment, very little in the way of credible policies has come out of Libertas’s first congress. This makes rational analysis difficult, which begs the question if it is the unintended result of amateurism or the chosen mode of operation for a disparate populist movement.
Despite the dearth of materials, I am going to dedicate a few blog posts to aspects of what Libertas is offering voters ahead of the European elections, to the extent that rational analysis is possible.
Sadly, I come to the conclusion that there is not enough material open to rational discussion. Don’t blame me, if voids have to be filled by speculation.
***
Venue
The chosen venue was Rome, officially where the EEC and Euratom Treaties of Rome were signed.
But Ganley’s recruitment drive and largesse seem to have attracted mostly nationalists, rejectionists and conservative Catholics from the hard line right of national politics. Thus, the seat of the Bishop of Rome may have resonated at a deeper level with many of the star performers and participants.
***
Membership
By the looks of it, there were hundreds of participants. Libertas, which has become known for presenting nice round figures, claims 1,000.
On Friday Declan Ganley made the following claim:
“Over a million of you have joined us through libertas.eu so far.”
A million Libertas members is an astonishing claim. It would be nice to see such an assertion substantiated with a suitable breakdown between national chapters.
Ralf Grahn
Saturday, 4 April 2009
EU media measures & consultation
The Commission’s Media Task Force has compiled an Inventory of measures affecting the media, covering the following policy areas:
1) Audiovisual and media policies
2) Communications policy
3) i2010
4) Research
5) Other policy files with potential media impact
6) Commissioner’s groups
7) Reference – Lisbon strategy, impact assessment
Policies affecting the media are spread over fifteen Directorates-General and Services, which makes the Inventory a valuable tool for everyone interested in EU level developments. The Inventory is updated until January 2009.
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SME consultation
The European Commission’s (DG INFSO) Media Task Force has launched an online consultation "European publishing small and medium-sized enterprises in the digital era: technological and business innovation ", in order to carry out a thorough investigation of the current state of publishing SMEs, in particular the obstacles they face and future development possibilities.
This questionnaire is aimed at SMEs in the field of publishing: books, newspapers and magazines.
Ralf Grahn
:
1) Audiovisual and media policies
2) Communications policy
3) i2010
4) Research
5) Other policy files with potential media impact
6) Commissioner’s groups
7) Reference – Lisbon strategy, impact assessment
Policies affecting the media are spread over fifteen Directorates-General and Services, which makes the Inventory a valuable tool for everyone interested in EU level developments. The Inventory is updated until January 2009.
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SME consultation
The European Commission’s (DG INFSO) Media Task Force has launched an online consultation "European publishing small and medium-sized enterprises in the digital era: technological and business innovation ", in order to carry out a thorough investigation of the current state of publishing SMEs, in particular the obstacles they face and future development possibilities.
This questionnaire is aimed at SMEs in the field of publishing: books, newspapers and magazines.
Ralf Grahn
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