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
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’
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 [...]
Left Will Not Be Silenced On Lisbon Two
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 [...]
Lisbon Treaty Pushes Privatisation Agenda
On March - 19 - 2008
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 [...]
