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Would you like a conspiracy theory with that? | 41 comments (41 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

I fail to believe that you can raise 1.5 M€ from "lots of small donors." I have a bottle of good Danish beer that says that either he and his wife provided the lion's share of the funding, or we'd find an interesting network of slush funds if we'd been able to dig into his funding in earnest.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Apr 10th, 2008 at 10:56:13 AM EST

Re: I smell slush funds (4.00 / 3)

Libertas has been very cagey about its membership and funding - whilst berating the EU for a lack of transparency. It's position is that it is in compliance with disclosure information - which I suspect is pretty minimalist. If you can round up enough friends, supporters, cronies and acolytes to nominally put up €4,999 Euros in each of their names, pretty soon you are talking real money...

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Apr 10th, 2008 at 11:24:04 AM EST
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Precisely (n/t) (none / 1)

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Apr 10th, 2008 at 11:30:27 AM EST
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Re: I smell slush funds (none / 1)

I'd like to be careful here, since Irish libel law is sort of fun, but the Sunday Business Post said that:

Much of the Libertas expenditure is expected to be met, either by direct provision or by way of loans, from Ganley's own resources.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Apr 10th, 2008 at 11:50:20 AM EST
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Re: I smell slush funds (none / 1)

Papers won't publish LTE's if they think they might be libelous. This isn't about Declan Ganly personally, its about Libertas and its sources of funding and close connections to US military/industrial complex - and Jane's Intelligence assessment that the Bush regime would prefer bilateral agreements with individual states rather than a stronger EU entity. If I get time tonight I might draft an LTE. Happy to do on individual basis if you prefer.

"It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Thu Apr 10th, 2008 at 12:21:11 PM EST
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Re: I smell slush funds (none / 1)

No, jointly is fine. So long as it doesn't suggest that there's anything illegal going on!

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Apr 10th, 2008 at 12:24:43 PM EST
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