Commenting on the EU summit of heads of state and government that opens tomorrow, Green Party Senator Deirdre de Burca said:

“Tomorrow heads of state and government must – and will – admit the failure of free-market policies that have been blindly followed for decades. They will state the obvious: that we need tighter regulation [...]

De Burca writes to Sarkozy proposing ‘people’s forum’ on the future of Europe
 The Green Party’s European Affairs spokesperson Deirdre de Burca has written to French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposing that he organise a ‘people’s forum’ to discuss the future of the European Union following Ireland’s rejection of the Lisbon Treaty.
Senator de Burca is a member [...]

Senator Deirdre de Burca and Senator Dan Boyle with Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner for setting up the Green Belt Movement in Kenya.

New EU subcommittee must look beyond Lisbon Treaty Green Party European Affairs spokesperson Senator Deirdre de Burca has called on the new Oireachtas subcommittee on Ireland’s future in the European Union to look beyond the Lisbon Treaty and concentrate on making the European Union more accessible to the ordinary voter.
Speaking at the first meeting [...]

Greens to discuss banking crisis and Lisbon with EU Presidency in Paris
The Green Party’s spokespersons on Finance and European Affairs will travel to Paris this week to discuss the crisis in the international financial sector and the future of the Lisbon treaty with the French Presidency of the European Union and Green politicians from across [...]

Green Party Senator and candidate in the European Elections Deirdre de Burca will take part in an election monitoring mission for the parliamentary elections in the Republic of Belarus, which take place this Sunday 28 September. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was invited to observe the elections by Belarusian Minister for [...]

Green Party Castleknock ward candidate, Roderic O’Gorman has welcomed the selection of Senator Deirdre De Burca as the party’s candidate to run in the Dublin Constituency in the Euro Elections next year. At the selection convention in Liberty Hall, Roderic O’Gorman was chosen as the party’s ‘first replacement’ for Senator De Burca. 
Speaking after the selection [...]

Greens to select Dublin
MEP candidate on Saturday
 When: 2-4pm, Saturday, 13 September 2008
Where: Liberty Hall Theatre, Eden Quay, Dublin 1
 
 ***Please note: There will be a briefing for media at 1.30pm***
Green Party members from the Dublin area will gather in Liberty Hall this weekend to formally select a candidate to run for the Party in next [...]

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Inaugural Green Summer School to discuss Lisbon, climate change and migration

Green Party senators and officials will discuss the future of the Lisbon Treaty at the first ever Green Summer School in the German-Polish border cities of Frankfurt Oder and Słubice this weekend. More than 800 participants from 42 countries will attend the green ‘creative laboratory’ [...]