Parliament set to probe Libertas’s ‘anti-EU’ support

EUROPEAN Parliament heads will today discuss setting up a committee of inquiry into whether anti-EU elements helped fund the Libertas campaign in Ireland.

Libertas founder Declan Ganley has dismissed the allegations describing it as “classic dis-information” and was critical of Daniel Cohn-Bendit, leader of the Parliament’s Green group, who raised the issue earlier this week.

Mr Cohn-Bendit said that, if allegations that anti-EU sources in the US Pentagon or CIA had funded the no campaign were true, it raised grave concerns for interference in next year’s European elections.