Irish EU Commissioner, Charlie McCreevy agrees. Heres what he said On the other hand, all of the [political leaders] know quite well that if the similar question was put to their electorate by a referendum the answer in 95 per cent of the countries would probably have been No as well.
Were an island nation, with a huge natural resource yet our fishing industry has been utterly destroyed. It should also be noted that the Treaty of Rome didnt expressly allow the EU to share our fishing waters they just took that implied right after the Irish people had agreed to sign up to the treaty.
Now it is the turn of our farmers. Last year there were mass protests when EU Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, conducted negotiations which farmers said would slash farm incomes and lead to mass rural unemployment.
Our freedom and our sovereignty were won by the tremendous sacrifices of a few. But 90 years later, the same politicians who crashed our economy to keep bankers, crooks and developers happy, want us to give our basic freedoms away to Brussels.
Does this matter? Yes it does. Were a nation of free people, but Yes campaigners want us to abandon our nationhood to create a EU super-state where the elite in Brussels simply dont have to consult the people anymore.
The Lisbon Treaty in Art 9 makes us citizens of a federal European Union to whom we owe our loyalty over and above our loyalty to Ireland.
The heroes of 1916 fought to free the Irish people. They won for you the freedom to decide, to be masters of our nation, and our destiny. Dont throw that away.
Under Lisbon, EU laws would be made by a majority of States as long as they have 65% of the total EU population between them (Article16 TEU). This change would double Germany's voting power in making EU laws from its present 8% to 17%, increase Britain's, France's and Italy's from 8% each to 12% each, while halving Ireland's vote to 0.8%.
€1.84 is the average of the hourly minimum wage rates set by the EU's Accession countries - mostly from Eastern Europe. Their wage rates were obtained from Eurostat.
Sub-contractors, employing workers from such countries, have got the EU Courts to agree that wage agreements set by wealthier EU countries (of which Ireland is one) may be set aside.
The Irish minimum wage is currently €8.65 - not a princely sum. Rüffert, Laval and other rulings are part of a very worrying trend, supported by the EU Court, of smashing the right to a living wage. It is clear that post-Rüffert, the ECJ is perfectly open to finding that labour may be imported into Ireland from Latvia by a Latvian sub-contactor, for example, and the minimum wage of that country could apply, if Irish workers do not want to accept that the jobs go to the Latvians. This is grossly unfair to both Irish and migrant workers who should both expect, and should be entitled to, a living wage.
Read more here : http://www.coircampaign.org
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