European elections: The Irish Libertas party mobilising online

The business paper Világgazdaság writes about the Irish movement Libertas, which is making clever use of the possibilities offered by the Internet in the European elections: "The European election campaign of the Irish Libertas movement, which takes a critical view of further EU integration, has caught the public eye not just for its habit of regularly posting untruths, but also because it knows how to make the best of the technology of the 21st century. ... Granted, the real problem isn't that the EU critic is a virtuoso on this new instrument. What really has people racking their brains is that the traditional political forces have apparently not taken up the challenge. ... Until now citizens have been primarily fobbed off in European affairs with cut and dried political slogans, while rational arguments are few and far between. This has functioned until now because there was nothing else to choose from. However in the era of Internet mobilisation there is now an alternative, and the Libertas movement is the first significant example."

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