The video of a debate broadcast on European Parliament TV discussing the Lisbon Treaty is now online. DO YOU AGREE? SUPPORT JOE & THE SOCIALIST PARTY?   Subscribe to Joe's Newsletter | Donate | Get Involved | Join Read More →

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... More

Joe Higgins spoke at a press conference today launching the broad left Vote No to Lisbon (SayNo.ie, formerly Campaign Against the EU Constitution). Click Image to Watch RTE News Coverage of Launch Joe was intereviewed on RTE radio about the launch of the campaign and why he will be campaigning against Lisbon. Listen to the interview... More

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... More

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 of State agree ‘legal guarantees’... More

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 policy that differs... More

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... More