Do we want to go back to pre-EU isolation?

IN his letter headlined ‘We risk moving from the geographical to the political margins of Europe’, Dr John De Roche (July 7) raised some very powerful arguments.

How often have we heard the old saying, “eaten bread is soon forgotten”?

Since 1973, a primitive, inward-looking, under-developed, compulsively nationalistic country has been transformed into a self-confident, outward-looking, competent people.