EU constitution threat to our independence

AS we approach the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising, the Taoiseach appears rather hypocritical in celebrating Irish independence while his Government supports the EU constitution which would virtually annul the powers of the Oireachtas.

Instead we would be governed by the EU commission, which is anti-democratic, bureaucratic, unaccountable and endemically corrupt.

Anyone who dares oppose an EU treaty in Ireland is branded anti-European whereas the real anti-Europeans are people like Jose Manuel Barroso who seek to create a federalist superstate built on US-style free trade policies which increase Third World poverty and the militarisation of the continent for the resource wars of the 21st century.

The voters in France and Holland have bought time for the sovereignty of European states, but one must fear that this constitution will eventually be ratified with or without the support of the citizens the EU is supposed to represent.

Adam Douglas

Ballinakilla

Bartlemy

Co Cork