Quinn warns of ‘new Iron Curtain’
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on January 12, 2008
IRELAND risks being accused of drawing a new Iron Curtain across Europe if we reject the Nice Treaty again, Labour leader Ruairi Quinn said yesterday, writes Alison O’Connor.
Ireland, more than any other state, should respond to the desire of the applicant countries to join the EU with generosity and solidarity. “It took 40 years to dismantle the Iron Curtain that divided east from West. For us to hinder enlargement will seem like a return to those times” he said.
Mr Quinn said some opponents of the treaty were failing to see the wood for the trees. “They seek to defend the position of small states in the EU and at the same time oppose a treaty that will considerably alter EU membership in favour of small states” he said.
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