Libertas was a

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founded by

Declan Ganley Declan James Ganley (born 23 July 1968) is an English-born Irish entrepreneur, businessman, and political activist. He was the founder and leader of the Irish branch of the eurosceptic Libertas Party. Primarily a telecommunications entrepreneur ...

that took part in the

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in several member states of the European Union. It won one seat in

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History

Creation

In 2008, the Libertas Institute Limited, a

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founded by Declan Ganley and others, advocated a "no" vote in Lisbon I, the 2008 referendum in

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on the

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. Lisbon I failed. The

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was held on 12 June 2008 and defeated by 53.4% to 46.6%, with a turnout of 53.1%. Libertas held a post-referendum celebration in the Burlington Hotel in Dublin on the night of Friday, 13 June 2008."Europe caught in our offside trap"
Sunday Times, 15 June 2008 Attending that celebration was Danish Eurosceptic"Lisbon treaty to bring more power to officials-critics in Prague"
13 January 2009, ČeskéNoviny.cz and former President of the EUDemocrats"Bonde calls for Referendum in 2009"
, EUDemocrats press release, 22 July 2008 and recently retired MEP

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, who had been a "no" campaigner during the referendum. Bonde was later cited as one of the main architects of the upgrading of Libertas to a

."Anti-Lisbon party obtains EU recognition and funding"
, EurActive.com, 3 February 2009"Libertas set to emerge as political party as candidates unveiled"
, 2 February 2009 On 15 July 2008, '' RTÉ News on Two'' covered Ganley's comments at

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, where he stated that Libertas intended running as a European political party. The next day Ganley confirmed that Libertas was fundraising in order to run candidates throughout Europe in the 2009 European Parliament elections. On 20 September 2008, ''

The Irish Times ''The Irish Times'' is an Irish daily broadsheet newspaper and online digital publication. It was launched on 29 March 1859. The editor is Ruadhán Mac Cormaic. It is published every day except Sundays. ''The Irish Times'' is Ireland's leading n ...

'' reported"Eurosceptics to help Ganley if he is MEP candidate"
''The Irish Times'', 20 September 2008 that Bonde and Czech president

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pledged to help Ganley to launch Libertas. The two were later amongst the guests at a dinner hosted by Ganley at the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin on 11 November 2008."Ganley's dinner party was a meeting of minds"
Irish Times, 13 November 2008 On 30 October 2008, Ganley registered a company based in Moyne Park,

Tuam Tuam (; , meaning 'mound' or 'burial-place') is a town in Ireland and the second-largest settlement in County Galway. It is west of the midland Region, Ireland, midlands of Ireland, about north of Galway city. The town is in a civil parishe ...

, County Galway called the ''Libertas Party Limited''. ''The Irish Times'' reported that the new party was intended to "carry on the business of a European political party". The party was publicly announced in December 2008"Libertas to seek a Euro majority"
The Sunday Times, 13 December 2008 with ambitions to field up to 400 candidates and win seats in all 27 EU member states. In early 2009, Libertas applied to be recognised by the European Parliament as a Europena political party. The application was briefly successful; however, it was suspended indefinitely amidst controversy.

Pan-European expansion

Ganley then travelled around Europe to set up Libertas lists and parties for the

. In November 2008 Libertas opened its Brussels office. Libertas launched in France on 12 February 2009, the Netherlands on 15 April, followed by several other European Union member states.Libertas website
On 1 May 2009, Libertas held its first pan-European party convention in RomeLibertas Party Convention, Rome
in time for the European Parliament elections in June, when it fielded hundreds of candidates for election.

Austria

In Austria, ''Libertas'' was rejected by both

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(FPÖ) and Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) as well as by the independent Hans-Peter Martin. Martin announced after talks and serious considerations, that he would rather remain independent,"Martin stiffs Irish ´Libertas´"
, 5 March 2009, from Austrian Times which he successfully did. FPÖ harshly rebuffed Ganley's advances associating his activism with an alleged American conspiracy. The initially noncommital BZÖ later also declined, preferring a loose cooperation in the

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Bulgaria

An electoral list called "Libertas: Free Citizens" () was formed by some 30 national and local

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s. Pavel Chernev's Freedom Party that had announced to join the list was repudiated by Libertas. However, the submitted list was later rejected by the Bulgarian electoral commission. An appeal filed by Nikolay Bliznakov was turned down by Bulgaria's Supreme Administrative Court on the grounds that the list had not proven the required deposit had not given the names of its constituent parties. In the meantime, Bulgarian businessman Hristo Atanassov founded a party under the name

Libertas Bulgaria Libertas was a European political party founded by Declan Ganley that took part in the 2009 European Parliament election in several member states of the European Union. It won one seat in France. History Creation In 2008, the Libertas Institu ...

which has no connection to the pan-European Libertas network.

Czech Republic

Right after the preliminary rejection of the

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, founder of the European ''Libertas.eu'', was guest of Czech President

Irish receive Czech prize for rejection of Lisbon treaty
" 6 November 2008, Prague Monitor The Czech eStat.cz civic group had ambitions to replicate Libertas's successThink-tank: Lisbon Treaty brings new imperialism
4 November 2008, Prague Monitor and awarded the Irish electorate the Michal Tošovský Prize, picked up by Ganley in Prague on 5 November 2008. During his stay in Ireland after a state visit, Klaus visited Ganley in a private capacity and later attended the Shelbourne Hotel dinner given by Ganley for leading Eurosceptics."Klaus calls himself 'EU dissident'"
, 11 November 2008, Prague Monitor However, Ganley's Libertas was later rejectedNew right wing party to be founded. 9 December 2008, ''Prague Monitor''.
", ''The Irish Times'', Monday 12 January 2009 by the new Czech Eurosceptic party,

Petr Mach Petr Mach (born 6 May 1975) is a Czech economist and former Member of the European Parliament. Mach is the founder of the Party of Free Citizens, which he led until 2017 when he was replaced by Tomáš Pajonk. Early career Mach worked as an e ...

's Party of Free Citizens, which was endorsed by Klaus. Additionally, the Ganley-disavowed new Czech Eurosceptic party by

Vladimír Železný Vladimír Železný (born 3 March 1945) is a Czech businessman and politician. He was the first CEO of Nova (Czech TV), TV NOVA, a popular Czech television station and was a member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2009. As a media mogu ...

usurped the Libertas brand by registering itself as ''Libertas.cz''. Ganley's Libertas later claimed Železný's Libertas as an affiliate.

Greece

After

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(), President of the Greek

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had attended Libertas.eu's Rome convention on 1 May 2009. Manolis Kalligiannis (Μανώλης Καλλιγιάννης, sometimes rendered in English as Emmanuel Kalligiannis), Liberal Party run for the

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under a Libertas-affiliated list with the name "Κόμμα Φιλελευθέρων – Libertas.eu".

Hungary

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, Libertas.eu searched for candidates in an Internet ad and Károly Lóránt was appointed the Hungarian representative. However, as Hungarian concerns that a disorganized EU would only serve Russian strategic interests could not be dissipated, no list was fielded on behalf of Libertas.

Italy

Libertas.eu announced talks with the Pole of Autonomy coalition on 30 April 2009, the day before its Rome convention,"Libertas.eu and l’Autonomia in discussions to run together for European elections in Italy: Announcement to be made at the first Libertas Convention in Rome"
undated which were confirmed the next day by Teodoro Buontempo, the president of The Right. However, in the final candidate lists submitted in May, no candidates were fielded by Libertas.eu, neither did the Pole of Autonomy list refer to Libertas.

Lithuania

Ganley arrived in

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on Tuesday 3 March 2009 to discuss terms with prospective candidates, and explore whether to establish a new Libertas party in Lithuania or change the name of an existing Lithuanian party."Party agitating against Lisbon Treaty seeks candidates for European Parliament elections in Lithuania"
, 4 March 2009, fro
www.euro.lt
He did so again on Monday 24 March 2009 at a lecture at

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's Institute of International Relations and Political Science (IIRPS, or VU Tarptautinių Santykių ir Politikos Mokslų Institutas, VU TSPMI)."Į Vilnių vėl atvyksta paneuropinės partijos „Libertas“ vadovas"
2009.03.27 18:24
balsas.lt
English translation her

/ref> On 31 March 2008, Libertas Lithuania gave a press conference.Libertas announces election plans for Lithuania.
From Libertas.eu, 31 March 2009. Retrieved 31 March 2009. "Paneuropinės partijos „Libertas“ EP rinkimų sąraše – Bielinis (papildyta)"
31 March 2009 14:35
alfa.lt
English translation her

/ref>"Prezidento patarėjas šturmuos Europarlamentą su A.Valinsko partija (dar atnaujinta)"
, 31 March 2009
politika.atn.lt
, English translation her

/ref> Attendees at the press conference were Ganley, lawyer , political analyst and Lithuanian presidential advisor Lauras Bielinis, and Tautos Prisikėlimo Partija representative . In that press conference, it was announced that the Libertas Lithuanian list would be headed by Sutkiene and would include Bielinis, and that candidates from the Tautos Prisikėlimo Partija would stand with them under a common list, although Ganley and Stoma disagreed whether other parties would join them under that list. When asked if he had read the Lisbon Treaty, Bielinis demurred. When asked about Libertas Lithuania's funding, Ganley demurred. Bielinis planned to remain in his presidential advisory post until 7 May 2009 and take unpaid leave thereafter. Lithuanian President

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disagreed and announced Bielinis' resignation the next day, 1 April 2009."Л. Белинис – уже не советник президента"
1 April 2009, fro
news.penki.lt
, English translation her

/ref> When the lists were published, neither Bielinis nor Sutkiene were on Tautos Prisikėlimo Partija's list."Kandidatų sąrašai"
, fro
http://vilnius.adagio4.eu/
/ref>
, from ttp://www.vrk.lt/ http://www.vrk.lt//ref> When Libertas named their finalised candidates in May 2009, they did not include any candidates in Lithuania,"Libertas.eu :: Candidates"
and the Tautos Prisikėlimo Partija website contained no pledge of allegiance to Libertas.

Portugal

In April 2009, the Portuguese

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Earth Party (MPT) announced in a joint press conference with Ganley that it would run for the

with an open electoral list under the banner of ''Libertas.eu''.

Slovakia

While the vice-president of the EUDemocrats, Peter Kopecký had already announced the foundation of a ''Libertas Slovensko'' branch, he changed his mind in late February and decided to head the list of the small, but already established Agrarian and Countryside Party. Ganley had to look out to other options and met in

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with leaders of the conservative parties KDS and OKS, and with

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, the founder of the new ( Sloboda a Solidarita). While Sulík, whom Ganley had already contacted before, still didn't show much interest, Vladimír Palko (KDS) agreed to bring in their joint list with OKS into the European network. However, as the two partys didn't want to give up their distinct identities, they used ''Libertas'' only as supplementary brand.

Endgame

Libertas fielded over 600 candidates (including substitutes), but only one was elected: Phillippe de Villiers. Although Ganley himself polled a respectable number of votes, it was not enough for him to take a seat in his constituency. Ganley requested a recount of his personal vote but still lost."Libertas leader threw toys out of election pram"
fro
http://www.independent.ie/
/ref> Having made the promise to do so before the election, Ganley retired from politics following his defeat on 8 June 2009: the fate of the party he founded, chaired, owned and governed was left to others. However, the affiliated Libertas Institute did emerge again in the Republic of Ireland when the Irish government launched its re-run of the

, despite its defeat the previous year. The Libertas party, along with the other minority political groupings, such as the

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and

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, which opposed the European Constitutional Amending Bill, were outspent and outperformed by the political proponents of the bill who won by a substantial majority. Declan Ganley went on to praise the Irish Prime Minister, or Taoiseach, on 'what was, politically, a masterful campaign...from a masterful politician who has made glove puppets out of the opposition' although Ganley also cited recent economic turmoil in the country as a major deciding factor in the vote.

Staff

Structure

Libertas's intended structure evolved with time. It was originally intended to be an alliance of national parties, but it was later envisaged as a single pan-European party with candidates running as individual members of Libertas. By the end of April 2009, Libertas's structure had settled into a loose association of national ''member parties'' (either new or pre-existing), with each member party adhering to a set of core principles (see below) but retaining its independence and adding on additional policies as it felt appropriate."Libertas Eesti Erakond kinnitas Europarlamendi valimisnimekirja"
undated page o
http://www.libertas.eu/
/ref> For the purposes of contending the 2009 European Parliament elections, Libertas candidates ran under ''lists'' (the lists of candidates presented to voters in a European election) branded with the Libertas identity, as exemplified by the French approach. Each list was made up of some combination of the following: *''members of member parties'' *''members of affiliate parties'' (parties that were not members of Libertas.eu but cooperated with it electorally) *''individual members'' (people who chose to join Libertas.eu as individuals). New national member parties established by Libertas had names in the "Libertas X" format, e.g. " Libertas Sweden""Hjälp Libertas bli ett registrerat parti"
26 February 2009 from th
Libertas website
/ref> (except in the UK).The UK could not adopt a "Libertas X" format name because that name had already been registered with the Electoral Commission. The Libertas.eu member parties in the UK are "Pro-Democracy: Libertas.eu" and "Libertas Northern Ireland" Pre-existing national member parties were asked to change their names to include the word "Libertas" in the title. Members of member parties were members of Libertas automatically unless they chose otherwise. Affiliate parties retained their original names.
7 January 2009, from ttp://www.tvp.info/ www.tvp.info English translation her

/ref>"Nytt nejparti ställer upp i EU-valet"
3 March 2009, fro
dn.se
English translation her

/ref> Members of affiliate parties were not members of Libertas unless they chose to join as individuals.

Position

Ganley stated that following a group conference in Rome in March 2009, (later postponed to 1 May 2009)"Nowa partia nie będzie mieć polskiego prezesa"
ONET.pl, 20 March 2009, English translation her

/ref> Libertas would publish a policy document or party manifesto. covering areas such as democracy, the economy, small businesses, the recession, and EU institution accountability."Ganley: Germany has 'enormous potential' for Libertas"
, EurActiv.com, 11 February 2009 No formal manifesto was published at the political convention, convention."Flags and slogans mark Libertas congress in Rome"
HONOR MAHONY, 1 May 2009
http://euobserver.com/
/ref> Instead, Libertas's core principles were displayed on its website"Libertas.eu policies"
fro
http://www.libertas.eu/
/ref> and reiterated at its convention, namely accountability, transparency, democracy and rejection of the

. Each member party and individual member was obliged to adhere to these core principles, although they could add additional policies as they felt appropriate. Affiliate parties were not obliged to so adhere. The core principles were given concrete form when Libertas published the following policies on its website:"Libertas.eu: Policies"
fro
http://libertas.eu/
* The powers of legislative initiative, inspection and decision should be reserved to elected officials. * Expenses of the

and

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to be published. * European Commission to identify €10 billion in savings for

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2010/11. * Any given Constitution Treaty to be ratified by referendums in each member state. * Meetings in BrusselsWhether the term "Brussels" was used here to refer to the seat of the European Commission in Brussels, or to the seat of the European Parliament in Brussels, or to the seat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels, or to all of these, was not specified. to be reduced by 50%.

Membership

Member parties

Member parties were members of Libertas.eu. Members of member parties were automatically members of Libertas.eu unless they chose otherwise. :* Libertas Estonia :* Libertas Germany :* Libertas Ireland :* Libertas Malta :* Libertas Netherlands :* Libertas Poland :* Libertas Sweden :*

Libertas United Kingdom Libertas UK may refer to three political parties in the United Kingdom: two are regional affiliates of Declan Ganley's Libertas Party Limited, one of which, Pro-Democracy: Libertas.eu, contended the 2009 European Parliament elections under a common ...

:* Libertas Latvia

Affiliate parties

Affiliate parties were not members of Libertas.eu but cooperated with it electorally under Libertas lists. Members of affiliate parties were not members of Libertas.eu unless they chose to join as individuals. :*

Svoboda Svoboda () means "freedom" in various Slavic languages. It may refer to: People * Svoboda (surname) Organizations Media * Radio Svoboda, operated by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty * ''Svoboda'' (newspaper), a daily Ukrainian language newspa ...

(''Свобода'', SVOBODA) :* Libertas.cz"MPs who voted against Czech government join Libertas list for European Parliament elections"
1 April 2009
libertas.eu
/ref> :*

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Jmenné seznamy a přehledy > Kandidáti dle politické příslušnosti > Strana Libertas"">"Volby.cz Evropský parlament 2009 > Jmenné seznamy a přehledy > Kandidáti dle politické příslušnosti > Strana Libertas"
fro
http://volby.cz/
/ref> (''Nezávislí demokraté'', NEZDEM) :*

Movement for France The Movement for France (, MPF; ) was a Conservatism, conservative Soft Euroscepticism, Eurosceptic List of political parties in France, French political party, founded on 20 November 1994, with a marked Regions of France, regional stronghold in ...

"Européennes : Frédéric Nihous et Philippe de Villiers feront campagne commune"
La Tribune, 4 March 2009, English translation her

/ref>"Villiers et Nihous pour un «protectionnisme européen»"Le Figaro
9 March 2009 (''Mouvement pour la France'', MPF) :*

Hunting, Fishing, Nature, Tradition The Rurality Movement ( ; LMR ), formerly Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Traditions ( ; CPNT ) is an agrarianist political party in France that aims to defend the traditional values of rural France. Its leader is Eddie Puyjalon. The party state ...

(''Chasse, Pêche, Nature, Traditions'', CPNT) :* Party of Work, Nature and Family - Christians for Germany"Wahlbewerber AUF"
fro
http://www.bundeswahlleiter.de
/ref>"AUF-Partei und Libertas schließen Bündnis für EU-Wahlen im Juni"
, 12 May 2009, fro
http://www.auf-partei.de/
"Germany: AUF party and Libertas form alliance for the EU elections"
fro
http://www.libertas.eu
/ref> (''Partei für Arbeit, Umwelt und Familie – Christen für Deutschland'', AUF) :*

"ΣΤΙΣ ΕΥΡΩΕΚΛΟΓΕΣ ΤΗΣ 7 ΙΟΥΝΗ 2009"
, fro
Liberal Party
(''Komma Fileleftheron'', KF) :* Forward Poland"Libertas allies with fringe right wing in Poland"
fro
http://www.polskieradio.pl

(''Naprzód Polsko'', NP) :* Polish People's Party "Piast" (''Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe "Piast"'', PSL Piast) :*

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"Lubelszczyzna - desant o. Rydzyka"
Gazeta Wyborcza, 26 March 2009, English translation her

/ref>"Borysiuk otworzy listę Libertas na Lubelszczyźnie?"
2009-03-28
http://www.radio.lublin.pl/
/ref>
undated (18 April 2009?)
http://wiadomosci.wp.pl/
/ref> (''Partia Regionów'', PR) :*

League of Polish Families The League of Polish Families ( Polish: ''Liga Polskich Rodzin,'' , LPR) is a social conservative political party in Poland, with many far-right elements in the past. The party's original ideology was that of the National Democracy movement whic ...

"Do PE startują Libertas, LPR, UPR, Prawica i PDP"
29 March 2009
newsweek.pl
English translation her

/ref> (''Liga Polskich Rodzin'', LPR) :* :pl:Organizacja Narodu Polskiego - Liga Polska, Organization of the Polish Nation - League of Poland"LIBERTAS - największe oszustwo wyborcze w wyborach do Parlamentu Europejskiego 2009 r."
"Wojciech Wierzejski komentuje rejestrację list: Hasłem naszym Wolność będzie i Ojczyzna nasza!"

(''Organizacja Narodu Polskiego - Liga Polska'', ONP-LP) :* Christian-National Union"Libertas list candidates in constituency number 8"
(''Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko-Narodowe'', ZChN) :* Earth Party (''Partido da Terra'', PT), formerly the Movement the Earth Party (''Movimento Partido da Terra'', MPT) :*KDS-OKS coalition"Libertas announces alliance in Slovakia"
fro
http://www.libertas.eu/
/ref> ::* Civic Conservative Party (''Občianska Konzervatívna Strana'', OKS) ::* Conservative Democrats of Slovakia (''Konzervatívni Demokrati Slovenska'', KDS) :* Agrarian and Countryside Party :* Citizens – Party of the Citizenry"Miguel Durán, cabeza de lista de la coalición Ciudadanos-Libertas"
15 April 2009, http://www.libertaddigital.com, English translation her

/ref> (''Ciudadanos-Partido de la Ciudadanía'', C) :* Social Democratic Party (Spain), Social Democratic Party (''Partido Social Demócrata'', PSD) :* People's Union of Salamanca"La elección de Miguel Durán como candidato desata una nueva crisis en C´s"
20 April 2009 22:10, http://www.elconfidencial.com, English translation her

/ref> (''Unión del Pueblo Salmantino'', UPSa)

Individual members

Individual members were people who chose to join Libertas.eu as individuals. People with no national party membership who were running under a Libertas list were automatically individual members.

2009 European Parliament elections

''Libertas'' didn't manage to present electoral lists in

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. In the other European countries, the candidates on ''Libertas.eus lists were either members of member parties, members of affiliate parties, or individual members.

Commonality with other organizations

Libertas was registered at Moyne Park, Tuam, County Galway along with other organisations associated with Libertas and/or Declan Ganley."Self Serving US Military Agenda of Messrs Ganley and McEvaddy"
FineGael.ie Press Release, 25 April 2008
Irish Independent, 7 June 2008"Opening of September II plenary session: Minute of silence for victim of ETA bombing / Funding of the No campaign in Ireland"
European Parliament press release, 22 September 2008
Jamie Smyth, ''The Irish Times'', 23 September 2008
Washington Post, 12 June 2008
''The Irish Times'', 31 May 2008 A list of organizations associated with Libertas.eu and/or Declan Ganley is given

here Here may refer to: Music * ''Here'' (Adrian Belew album), 1994 * ''Here'' (Alicia Keys album), 2016 * ''Here'' (Cal Tjader album), 1979 * ''Here'' (Edward Sharpe album), 2012 * ''Here'' (Idina Menzel album), 2004 * ''Here'' (Merzbow album), ...

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References

External links

Official website
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Official YouTube channel

Facebook page
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Libertas.Eu Political parties established in 2008 Former European political alliances Former European political parties Eurosceptic parties Political parties disestablished in 2010 Defunct political parties in Europe 2008 establishments in the European Union 2010 disestablishments in the European Union