Push for EU inquiry over CIA funding claim

FEARS that Libertas is being funded by anti-EU elements in the Pentagon and the CIA were raised in the European Parliament yesterday amid claims the anti-Lisbon treaty group spent more than €2 million on its campaign.

Libertas has refused to publish accounts, but MEPs are expected to push for a high-ranking Committee of Inquiry into its origins and funding.

Europe Minister Dick Roche said he believed Libertas spent more than €2m on its campaign, and not the €1.2m it had previously claimed.