Spurious Fear regarding Nice treaty...

Daithinski

I came across this website that was set up to promote a yes vote in the Nice referendum.

They had a page entitled "spurious" fears. How I laughed.

http://web.archive.org/web/20021012103443/http://www.yestonice.com/spurious.htm

Here are a selection of "facts" from this site...

a) The numbers of east-west migrants will be small

The study concludes about 120,000 emigrants will join the EU wide labour force per year, compared to annual immigration into the EU of 800,000 in recent years.

And today with 4,300,000 unemployed Germans and 2,500,000 unemployed Spaniards, nobody is talking about mass German or Spanish emigration to Ireland.
Why?
Because people prefer to be unemployed in the home country, home culture and language, surrounded by their family and friends.:eek:

A must read letter on the emigration issue - Irish Times 11th July 2002:
Sir,
I see that elements of the no campaign, while expressing profound concern for the peoples of the applicant countries, have decided to make worker migration one of the main issues.
People who wish to leave poverty behind can come to Ireland and undercut indigenous workers for a pittance of a wage. That's the claim.
Here? In one of the most expensive countries in Western Europe? If they are paid substantially less than Irish workers, they will be as badly off as in their own countries, so why come in the first place? Where's the logic? Methinks there's some mongering going on here, of the scary variety...


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Yours etc.
JASON O'MAHONY
Dublin 8

Tell us more oh wise oracle!

Could they have got it more wrong?

These are the same guys that are running the country. No wonder we are in the state we're in.

oscarBravo

Thread closed, because (a) it belongs in the EU subforum, and (b) it's been done over there.