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by Colman
The main group campaigning against the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland is Libertas (Frank has discussed them (and with them) before), a newly set-up group fronted by "entrepreneur" Declan Ganley. The group is astonishingly well funded - buying full page newpaper ads and billboards around the country and apparently promising to spend €1.5m - with only two donors above the €5000 limit where they have to be named: Ganley and his wife. The rest of the money has surprisingly come from lots of small donors. All questions about where their funding comes from are answered by the assertion that they are compliant with the relevant laws.
Who's Declan Ganley? Declan Ganley (39), is a European entrepreneur and Chairman and CEO of Rivada Networks designing and deploying broadband public safety communications networks for government customers. Declan has founded wireless broadband and cable TV businesses in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, including Broadnet (sold to Comcast), building and operating broadband wireless networks in ten EU countries and Cabeltel, with an extensive cable multimedia network in Eastern Europe. From 1991 he built what became the largest private forestry company in the Former Soviet Union, which he sold in 1997. He's a right-wing atlanticist who provides significant services to the US government, military and intelligence community and is well connected there: his fellow board members include lots of retired military staff and some ex-Bush cabinet members. That would be this military and intelligence community: As EU governments focus on securing ratification of the proposed Lisbon Reform Treaty in 2008, United States policymakers are concerned its provisions could present serious challenges to transatlantic intelligence and homeland security co-operation. The main US reservation is that, by transferring additional law and justice functions from the individual EU member states to EU institutions, the treaty could disrupt existing bilateral relations between US and EU governments without establishing anything better.(Janes)Fertile ground for a conspiracy theory, wouldn't you say?
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