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Declan Ganley is the founder and current Chairman of the pan-European political party ] and candidate for ] in the ] in North West Ireland. ] started in 2006 as a lobby group campaigning for a No-vote to the ] in the ], and has evolved into a pan-European political movement. ] are running for the ]. in 20 European countries. In ] 1 May 2009 ] held its first ].<ref>About Libertas, http://libertas.eu/en/about-us/origins</ref> Declan Ganley is the founder and current Chairman of the pan-European political party ] and candidate for ] in the ] in North West Ireland. ] started in 2006 as a lobby group campaigning for a No-vote to the ] in the ], and has evolved into a pan-European political movement. ] are running for the ]. in 20 European countries. In ] 1 May 2009 ] held its first ].<ref>About Libertas, http://libertas.eu/en/about-us/origins</ref>


]' political policies call for greater levels of ], ], and ] within the EU, as well as a twenty five page alternative to the ].<ref>http://libertas.eu/en/policies</ref>. The origin of the party's funding has been questioned<ref>http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/why-secrecy-over-libertas-funding-1471371.html</ref><ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1206/1228515635297.html</ref><ref>http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/politics/rivada-networks-not-funding-libertas-no-campaign-13879617.html</ref>. It is reported that Ganley personally loaned the party €200,000 for the Lisbon Treaty Campaign. <ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0923/1222105125507.html</ref><ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0925/1222207743809.html</ref> The European Union is set to ask US Congress about Libertas funding. <ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0926/1222374595762.html</ref>. ]' political policies call for greater levels of ], ], and ] within the EU, as well as a twenty five page alternative to the ].<ref>http://libertas.eu/en/policies</ref>. The origin of the party's funding has been questioned<ref>http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/why-secrecy-over-libertas-funding-1471371.html</ref><ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1206/1228515635297.html</ref><ref>http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/politics/rivada-networks-not-funding-libertas-no-campaign-13879617.html</ref>. Ganley personally loaned Libertas €200,000 for the Lisbon Treaty Campaign. <ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0923/1222105125507.html</ref><ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0925/1222207743809.html</ref> The European Union is set to ask US Congress about Libertas funding. <ref>http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0926/1222374595762.html</ref>.


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Declan James Ganley
Libertas candidate for
European Parliament 2009
Chairman of Libertas
ConstituencyNorth-West
Personal details
Born (1968-07-23) 23 July 1968 (age 56)
Watford, Hertfordshire,
United Kingdom
Political partyLibertas
Residence(s)Abbeyknockmoy, County Galway,
Ireland
Websitelibertas.eu/ganley

Declan James Ganley (born 23 July 1968) is an Irish entrepreneur, businessman and political activist. He is founder and current chairman for the pan-European political party Libertas and candidate to the 2009 European Parliament Election in the Irish constituency of North-West. Ganley has started companies in forestry, telecommunications and the internet and is currently serving as chairman of the board of Rivada Networks. During the 2008 Irish referendum on the Treaty of Lisbon, Ganley and the Libertas Institute campaigned for a No vote.

Ganley was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, of Irish parents, he returned with his parents to live in Glenamaddy, County Galway, Ireland, at the age of 13, and today lives in Abbeyknockmoy, County Galway with his American wife Delia and their four young children.

Early life

Until the age of 13 Declan Ganley lived in Watford, England and attended different Roman Catholic schools. At the age of 13 Declan Ganley returned to Ireland and attended school in Coláiste Sheosaimh, Glenamaddy from where he got his Leaving Certificate in 1987. While living in Galway, Glenamaddy and attending school from age 13 to 18 Declan Ganley rented a bank of turf which he cut and sold at the local market.

Upon receiving his Leaving Certificate at the age of 18, Declan Ganley moved to London to find a job. He initially worked on building sites but soon found a job as a tea boy at an insurance company. In 1988 after a trip to Russia, Declan Ganley made his first attempt to launch a business. A company to insure Western communication satellites launched on Soviet rockets. Declan Ganley also made his first trip to the USA to find customers, but was unsuccessful and his business never launched.

Shortly after Declan Ganley moved to Russia. During the fall of the Soviet Union the Ruble (Russian Currency) had depreciated and Siberian aluminum was undervalued. As a result aluminum in Russia was far cheaper than in the West. Declan Ganley saw an opportunity to exploit the price difference and made contracts to buy the aluminum at the equivalent of $30 in Russia and sell it at $300 in the West. The aluminum was then shipped to Rotterdam via Latvia. Declan Ganley didn't need to raise much capital for this business idea because he was able to make contracts where he would pay for buying the aluminum only after he been paid for selling it.

Business life

Ganley is former CEO and current Chairman of Rivada Networks, a US-based firm specialising in the provision of telecommunications systems to the military, police and emergency services in disaster situations. In the past, he has been involved in business ventures selling Russian aluminium and in the Latvian forestry sector. In the early 1990s Mr Ganley founded Kipelova Forestry Enterprises which became one of the largest forestry companies in the Russian Federation. He sold the company in 1997. In 1996, his company Ganley International founded the Anglo-Adriatic Investment Fund, an Albanian financial fund formed to collect and invest privatisation vouchers. It was unsuccessful in its attempts to reinvest these vouchers, and collapsed. Back in Ireland, Ganley had owned the high-profile jewellery website, Adornis.com, which collapsed after the downturn in the technology sector. A 2006 interview in CNBC’s European Business magazine suggested Ganley had a personal worth of €300 million. Declan Ganley also has investments in a joint venture with Nana Pacific called Rivada Pacific. Rivada Päcific has contracts worth $240 million with the US Miltary. He is Chairman of Rivada Networks and recently appointed former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Meyers to the board.

Libertas

Declan Ganley is the founder and current Chairman of the pan-European political party Libertas and candidate for Libertas in the European Parliament election, 2009 in North West Ireland. Libertas started in 2006 as a lobby group campaigning for a No-vote to the Lisbon Treaty in the Irish Referendum 12 June 2008, and has evolved into a pan-European political movement. Libertas are running for the European Parliament election, 2009. in 20 European countries. In Rome 1 May 2009 Libertas held its first Party Congress.

Libertas' political policies call for greater levels of democracy, transparency, and accountability within the EU, as well as a twenty five page alternative to the Lisbon Treaty.. The origin of the party's funding has been questioned. Ganley personally loaned Libertas €200,000 for the Lisbon Treaty Campaign. The European Union is set to ask US Congress about Libertas funding. .

Candidacy to the European Parliament

On 14 March 2009 at a press interview Ganley announced his candidacy to the European Parliament, for Libertas in the constituency of North-West. Until May 1 2009 Ganley travelled all over Europe to campaign against the Lisbon Treaty, and help local Libertas branches. On May 1 2009 Libertas held their first Party Congress. Since May 1 2009 he has focused his campaign on North West Ireland, canvassing, attending public speeches and debates and appearing on radio and TV. One week after he launched his election campaign, incumbent MEP Jim Higgins called Ganley a 'puppet of the US military'. In a recent opinion poll Ganley polled 9% of first preference votes in the North West Constituency.

See also

References

  1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8040499.stm
  2. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article4028006.ece
  3. http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsblog/2009/03/fiendish-declan-ganley-prepares-to-spoil-another-eu-party/
  4. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jq18p/HARDtalk_Declan_Ganley_founder_and_president_Libertas/
  5. "Anti-Lisbon treaty campaign is launched". RTÉ News. 12 March 2008. Retrieved 29 May 2009.
  6. 'What will international man of mystery Declan Ganley do next?' Sunday Tribune. June 15, 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
  7. Arnold, Bruce (2009). The Fight for Democracy – The Libertas Voice in Europe. A series of interviews with Declan Ganley by Bruce Arnold. ISBN: 978-1-905706-18-1. Killynon House Books Ltd. P152
  8. he Fight for Democracy – The Libertas Voice in Europe. A series of interviews with Declan Ganley by Bruce Arnold. ISBN: 978-1-905706-18-1. Killynon House Books Ltd. P153
  9. CNBC - Declan Ganley profile: http://cnbceb.com/people-profiles/declan-ganley/421/2/
  10. CNBC - Declan Ganley profile: http://cnbceb.com/people-profiles/declan-ganley/421/2/
  11. CNBC - Declan Ganley profile: http://cnbceb.com/people-profiles/declan-ganley/421/2/
  12. Profile: Declan Ganley. TimesOnline, May 25, 2008. Retrieved 14 March 2009.
  13. "Declan J. Ganley". www.rivada.com. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
  14. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0311/1224242664635.html
  15. Daly, Gavin (2006-03-19). "US magazine claims Ganley set to become billionaire". The Sunday Business Post.
  16. ^ CNBC Profile of Declan Ganley retrieved 2 November 2008
  17. ^ Declan Ganley - The King of 45 000 Albanian ShareHolders, Albanian Canadian League Information Service
  18. http://cnbceb.com/people-profiles/declan-ganley/421/1/
  19. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1022/1224454452983.html
  20. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1022/1224454452983.html
  21. http://www.fedspending.org/fpds/fpds.php?fiscal_year=&company_name=Rivada+Pacific&sortby=r&datype=T&reptype=r&database=fpds&detail=3&submit=GO Fed Spending Rivada Contracts
  22. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2008/1029/1225197273403.html
  23. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1022/1224454452983.html
  24. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0311/1224242664635.html Irish Times 11 March 2009
  25. http://www.rivada.com/7130879/aboutus-keypersonnel.htm Rivada Networks Website Key Personel
  26. About Libertas, http://libertas.eu/en/about-us/origins
  27. http://libertas.eu/en/policies
  28. http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/why-secrecy-over-libertas-funding-1471371.html
  29. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/1206/1228515635297.html
  30. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/politics/rivada-networks-not-funding-libertas-no-campaign-13879617.html
  31. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0923/1222105125507.html
  32. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0925/1222207743809.html
  33. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0926/1222374595762.html
  34. http://Declan Ganley annouces EP candidagcy: www.rte.ie/news/2009/0314/libertas.html
  35. http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ganley-is-branded-a-puppet-of--us-military-1682436.html
  36. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0516/1224246692541.html

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