The leading anti-Nice treaty campaigner, Mr. Anthony Coughlan, predicted last summer that the Government could be forced to bear the costs of potentially heavy eastern European migration to Ireland from 2004, without any Dáil debate or public consultation on the issue. The new regime will eliminate any question of a non-EU national being exploited. Following the decision of the Copenhagen Summit last December, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia can join the EU on 1 May 2004.