There does not have to have been a political vision. There is also the possibility that Libertas' "pan-European" efforts were really just PR - that they paid a couple of nutcases around Europe for associating themselves with the Libertas "brand" in order to be able to say "look at all this pan-European organising - we're not anti-Europe at all" to the Irish electorate. And then trusting that those parts of the Irish electorate they had a chance of winning over would not look too closely at what all those furriners with funny names were saying in their home countries...

- Jake

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