CLUBNIGHT: EUROPEANS AGAINST THE EU Last year, an EU Council meeting decreed that Irish voters must vote again on the Lisbon Treaty. This June, the European elections will throw the operations of Brussels open to public debate across the continent. A critique…
A critique of the EU today needs to go beyond the tired opposition between a Brussels superstate and pristine national political cultures. We need a pan-European political response, and an open-ended political analysis that takes into account the events unfolding before us.…
The Manifesto Club has published a ‘Phrasebook’ to mock the anti-democratic EU. Four times, European voters have said ‘No’ to European Union treaties: in Ireland on 7 June 2001 (Nice Treaty), France and Holland on 29 May and 1 June 2005 (European…
On 11 December, EU leaders will meet to find what they call a ‘solution’ to the ‘Irish problem’ – Irish voters’ rejection of the Lisbon Treaty in their June referendum. The Manifesto Club will be taking our campaign for popular democracy to the heart of Brussels – to expose the contemptuous attitude of European elites towards their publics, and to start to build a cross-European alliance for freedom and against bureaucracy. 8 DECEMBER, NO MEANS NO! – MEETING IN BRUSSELS We are delighted to be co-organising a discussion – with the think-tank, Open Europe – in the centre of Brussels, three days…