GUE/NGL Press Release – Relentless EU dismantling of postal services will hit both workers and customers
Opening today’s GUE/NGL group conference on the liberalisation of postal services, Irish MEP Joe Higgins said citizens were being hit hard by the Commission’s ongoing drive to privatise Europe’s postal services. “This relentless process of liberalisation totally ignores the impact on workers and customers... More
EuroParl TV Lisbon Debate
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 →
Joe Higgins Speaks at Launch of Broad Left Anti-Lisbon Campaign
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
Video: Joe Higgins’ first speech in the European Parliament
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
Lisbon: Round Two – A bosses charter, despite ‘guarantees’
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
Left Will Not Be Silenced On Lisbon Two
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
Lisbon Treaty Pushes Privatisation Agenda
If the Lisbon Treaty is passed, it will give a further impetus to the right wing, neo liberal agenda which the European Union has been driving hard through its structures. The EU Commission likes to give the impression that it is a neutral body which approaches economic policy in an impartial way. It is anything but. The Commission... More
