The Green Party position on Europe is not remotely 'Euro-sceptical'. We are an internationalist and pro-European Party. The European Green Party is the closest thing that there is to a genuine pan-European political Party (a new 'International', one might say): the Green MEPs vote together much more often that other groups in the Euro-Parl.
What the Green Party in this country is is deeply critical of existing European institutions, which are profoundly undemocratic, overly centrist, and deeply prejudiced toward big business. This is why we opposed the Lisbon Treaty. Any self-respecting leftwing / radical Party would take a similar view - which is why New Labour did not, presumably...
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I accept the Green Party of England and Wales could fairly be described as left and radical, but opposition to Lisbon is nothing to do with being left and radical, there are plenty of right and reactionary, and even a few centre and moderate folk opposed to Lisbon. It’s rather a shame that Greens who used to be beyond the one dimensional politics of left and right, now seem completely chained to it.
And my point to you still stands - nothing Cohn-Bendit says detracts from anything Rupert has said in this post.
Thanks too, David. Of course you are right that the European Green Party was internally divided, big-style, on the Lisbon Treaty. But that hardly undermines what I have said. The main point of what I said, in any case, was (as Jon says) about the British political scene, in relation to the issue of Europe.