On Libertas

Cross posted at Re:Europa.

Despite my misgiving about Decaln Gangley and his Astroturf organization Libertas, I can not deny that the election would be extremely boring without him. Well, in fact the election is still boring, but Libertas creates at least some interest. Via Julien Frisch I found this blog that is solemnly dedicated to anti-Libertas work*.

Additionally Ralf Grahn has an interesting write up of the Libertas congress that happened yesterday:**

• Declan Ganley & Libertas: One big mess?
  
• For Libertas Brussels is Washington
  
• Libertas’s big catch: Lech Walesa
  
• Who are Libertas? And what?

So far the webpage of Libertas does not of all that much information about specific policies. I also was not able to find some list about the national canidates. That would be most interesting. According to the everything I have read so far the Polish chapter of Libertas is consists essentially of the League of Polish Families. A strongly anti-EU party.

The leading candidate from Spain seemed to have a fascinating vision for the future of the EU (via the anti-libertas blog):

And Senor Duran won one of the biggest cheers of day during his address, when he announced: "I want to find with Declan a new Europe, a white Europe, not a black Europe."

Maybe he just wants to say that he wants Europe to have bright future, but it sure sounds strange.

The head of the German Libertas branch is Carlos A. Gebauer. From what I found. He seems to be a standard issue economic liberal. His personal webpage contains a huge amount of his writings on all kinds of subjects. However, a quick search shows that only three contain anything about EU issues. This leaves it unclear, what kind of institutional structure of Europe Mr. Gebauer envisions. Furthermore his articles on European issues display the typical Eurosceptic structure of total outrage against some rather inconsequential and technical decision taken in Brussels.




*I did not only find the link to the blog on Juliens page, I also use the exact same turn of phrase to describe what it does. I hope Julien can forgive my for plagiarizing his work.

**Mmhhh... ok I actually copied these links from Julien as well...so why write a post at all. I guess I have to add some independent "analysis".