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Socialist Party TD for Dublin West

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EuroParl TV Lisbon Debate

Posted by Joe Higgins On September - 26 - 2009

The video of a debate broadcast on European Parliament TV discussing the Lisbon Treaty is now online. Share on bebo Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Share on technorati Tumblr it Tweet about it Print for later Tell a friend

Big Business Out to Buy a ‘Yes’ to Lisbon

Posted by Joe Higgins On August - 30 - 2009

The pro-Lisbon political parties do not need to raise funds for the ‘Yes’ to Lisbon campaign. Big business is directly funding their side of the debate. The announcement that Intel and Ryanair will spend hundreds of thousands of euro to try to achieve a Yes vote in the upcoming Lisbon Treaty represents an unconcealed attempt [...]

Joe Higgins Speaks at Launch of Broad Left Anti-Lisbon Campaign

Posted by Joe Higgins On August - 18 - 2009

Joe Higgins spoke at a press conference today launching the broad left Vote No to Lisbon (SayNo.ie, formerly Campaign Against the EU Constitution). Joe was intereviewed on RTE radio about the launch of the campaign and why he will be campaigning against Lisbon. Listen to the interview online by clicking here. See the full press statement [...]

Video: Joe Higgins’ first speech in the European Parliament

Posted by Joe Higgins On July - 16 - 2009

Here in Joe Higgins´ first speech in the European Parliament he talks about the grand coalition between the right wing EPP and supposed ‘social democrats’ in Europe, and the Lisbon Treaty. For more on the grqnd coalition, read Joe’s press statement on this. For more on the Lisbon Treaty his recent article on the treaty’s [...]

Lisbon: Round Two – A bosses charter, despite ‘guarantees’

Posted by Joe Higgins On June - 18 - 2009

Less than two weeks after the Euro Election campaign a Euro related charade is about to be visited on the Irish people. We are now being told that the FiannaFail/Green Party Coalition Government will present us with the Lisbon Treaty for a vote in late September or early October as soon as the EU Heads [...]

EU Guarantees Don’t Change the Militarisation in Lisbon

Posted by Joe Higgins On May - 30 - 2009

When it comes to the thrust toward militarisation of the EU firmly implanted in the Lisbon Treaty, no guarantees can change what are very categorical dictates to Member States. The three specific issues which I wish to highlight in this regard are: 1. The extinction of the right of Member States to follow a foreign [...]

Left Will Not Be Silenced On Lisbon Two

Posted by jahs90 On March - 4 - 2009

By Joe Higgins: from Daily Mail, March 4, 2009, It really is remarkable how very embittered establishment figures and some political parties still are over their defeat in last year’s Referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. Professor Brigid Laffan is Principal of the College of Human Sciences in University College Dublin. The UCD President’s office website [...]

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