Roundtable elite do not want a square deal for EU workers

SO the ruling class believes that rejecting the project of the ruling class, the Lisbon Treaty, was damaging to Ireland’s interests (Irish Examiner, July 27).

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The most powerful among the Irish chief executives’ international counterparts have their very own EU think-tank pressure group, the European Roundtable of Industrialists. A forum of chief executives from more than 40 multinational interests, it has been an especially forceful influence over the process of European integration which is, naturally, being constructed in accordance with their wishes.