Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)

How can we move towards the 2020 strategy and its fine objectives if our people have been crippled by a crisis that is not solely our responsibility? The European project has considerable potential. Sinn Féin is not a party of little islanders. We believe in internationalism and international solidarity. We must stand up for the interests of ordinary people in Ireland, Greece, Portugal and the peripheral states. Those on either side of the European debate know that what is happening is a profound injustice, wrong and damaging the European project, not in terms of Europe itself, but internationally. This is my appeal.

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