Reject EU bullies
Vote No to Nice
The attempt by the EU Commission to bully the 26-County
government into changing its budget and cutting public spending
shows the need for a No vote in the planned referendum on the
Treaty of Nice, says Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin.
``The EU Commission is trying to bully the government into cutting
public spending,'' said the Cavan/Monaghan TD. ``The government is
right to resist this and must continue to do so, but successive
governments have ceded more and more powers to the EU and
surrendered control over our own economy. By joining the Euro and
abandoning democratic control of fiscal policy, this government
paved the way for the EU Commission and other EU finance
ministers to determine Irish budgetary policies. We are now
seeing the results of that surrender of economic sovereignty.
``Under the Treaty of Nice this process is being speeded up. That
is why the Treaty should be rejected in the planned referendum.
Nice is another major step in the creation of a federal EU state
with its own currency, its own army and its own central - but
undemocratic - government.''
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