Irish MEP Clare Daly (Confederal Group of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left) has called out Guy Verhofstadt for his arrogance. “Every time I listen to EU’s Verhofstadt, I see the arrogance of the EU institutions”, she said during a debate on Brexit.
MEP Clare Daly seems to have accepted BRexit and used a BRexit debate to rather target neoliberalism, the European Union and UK Establishment.
Clare Daly (Ind) said that BRexit was not about the "Crazy Brits" but about the failure of neoliberal politics in the EU and highlighted the Lisbon and Nice agreements. She also blamed soaring rents, declining wages, privatisation and undermining of public services.
An Irish candidate in the European elections has drawn attention to his campaign with a bizarre video in which he smashes through plaster walls. Ben Gilroy, an independent activist who is standing in Dublin, takes aim at “state corruption” and “unlawful evictions” by destroying them with a hurley, the stick used in the Irish sport […]
Left Wing independents4change MEP candidate Clare Daly showed her support for jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during the vote count for the European elections in Dublin on Monday, where she won a seat in the European Parliament. The candidate who has now won a seat in the European Parliament promises to deliver many a clash with the establishment...
Daly wore a t-shirt reading ‘Free Assange’ as she waited for the votes to be counted and, after a close contest, was announced as an Irish MEP for the first time. She edged out Sinn Feins's Lyn Boylan who has controversially been linked to George Soros...
Daly has shown her support for Assange in the past, and wore the same shirt in a campaign video on May 24 in which Daly claimed that BRexit and the "rise of the far right" are symptoms of EU oppression.
Daly also met with Assange in 2013 while he was in the Ecuadori
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivered a fiery speech to European lawmakers in Strasbourg, before they began deliberations on suspending the country’s key EU rights due to his government’s policies. Orban accused the “pro-migrant majority” of having “already made up their minds” to invoke the European Union Treaty’s Article 7 against Hungary, for its treatment of migrants and minorities, and the ruling party purported abuse of the law and suppression of media freedoms.
“Hungary will not accede to this blackmailing, Hungary will protect its borders, stop illegal migration and - if needed - we will stand up to you,” said Orban, who was re-elected with an overwhelming majority in April.
Hungary is going to be condemned because the Hungarian people have decided that this country is not going to be a country of migrants.”
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