Goodbye nation state, hello superstate

ANN Cahill’s article entitled ‘Convention uncovers the Government’s euro-sceptic attitude’ (Irish Examiner, March 12) makes disturbing reading. She writes that our representatives at the Convention on Europe are actively endeavouring to curb the power of the EU in a number of crucial areas.

But isn’t this rather late in the day?

For example, Article 9 of the first official draft of the European Constitution includes the following: “The constitution and law adopted by the union institutions in exercising competence conferred on it by the constitution shall have primacy over the law of member states.”

This marks goodbye to the European nation state and hello to the European superstate. Our constitution will not be worth the paper on which it is written.

This should set the alarm bells ringing.

Jim O’Sullivan,

Newtown,

Bantry,

Co Cork.