Seanad debates

Thursday, 12 September 2002

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Fiche ar an mBunreacht, 2002: An Dara Céim. Twenty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill, 2002: Second Stage.

 

What about the former communist states, the satellites of the Soviet Union who are clamouring for entry into the European Union? Some are small with small populations. Are they afraid they will be swallowed up? They are praying that they will be swallowed up. They are praying to get into an organisation where they can have free elections, free press, vote a government in or out and not be shepherded away in a truck in the middle of the night or tortured, where they will have jobs and can say whatever they want and not be arrested or slaughtered. This is what the European Union is all about. This is what the experiment is about and so far it has worked. As many Senators have said we do not have a right to stop these people from joining.

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