who are critical of the EU for its undemocratic development and its ever-more centralising political features. The EUD was opposed to the centralisation of political power in EU institutions, and demanded democratic scrutiny and control over EU institutional powers and actions by national and regional assemblies. Its four political core objectives were: enhancing transparency on all political levels, especially in the EU by giving citizens insight into all documents and meetings; strengthen real subsidiarity in the EU thus taking decisions at the lowest political level possible; improving democracy and accountability by reforming EU institutions and structures making them function more democratically; defending diversity in the EU by making it possible for member states to implement politics according to their national reality and by promoting flexible cooperation instead of fixed harmonisation. The operational aim of EUD was to act as an effective political platform and campaigning organisation which is able to influence pan-European politics towards extending democratic structures in the EU. The EUD also sought to have candidates elected in European elections that shared its core Eurorealist political ideas and thus influence politics in the European Parliament itself. Campaigns In March 2011, the EUDemocrats launched a campaign against the idea of direct-tax income for the European Union (including a tax on citizens, the banking sector, or the air traffic sector. The campaign was launched as www.noeutax.com. In an effort to bring balance to the euro debate in the Baltics, EUDemocrats has started a Latvian web information campaign at www.parlatu.lv. Membership : Michael Balter, Vivant group leader at the Parliament of the Deutschsprachige Gemeinschaft Belgiens : People's Movement against the EU : Arise the Republic (Debout la République) MP Nicolas Dupont-Aignan : National Platform People's Movement Independent TD Thomas Pringle : Euro Sceptic Party (Euro Scettici – Partito Animalista Italiano) : MEP Iveta Grigule Eiroskeptiķu Rīcības Partija (Eiroskeptiķu Rīcības Partija) Demokrāti.lv : Direct Democracy (Slovakia) (Priama Demokracia - Hnutie Domova) Rudolf Kusy member of the regional parliament of Bratislava Peter Kopecký : June List (Junijska lista) EUDemocrats Slovenia (EUDS) Gorazd Drevensek : June List (Junilistan) Notes References Laure Neumayer: Euroscepticism as a political label; in: European Journal of Political Research 2/2007. Géraud de Ville: Eurosceptics are Eurocritics or Eurorealists; in: Politeia 10/2007. External links EUDemocrats official site Independence and Democracy group in the European Parliament official site Swedish EUD blog European Referendum Campaign official site Article by Géraud de Ville in Politeia: