Sir, - Like many others, I do not wish to become a secondclass citizen of a vassal province in a two-tier Europe. I believe if we accept the near abolition of the national veto, further militarisation with an EU army, and lose control of our courts, currency and own national army, we may give up all hope of social and political self-determination.
Now that the EU gravy train has stopped, it is the Irish taxpayer who will be forced to subsidise the enlargement of the EU - something we can ill afford and could do without. To reject the Nice Treaty would force our representatives to accept that there is an alternative to a centralised European superstate. That is a negotiated Europe of independent and interdependent democratic countries, co-operating together to build a better Europe. - Yours, etc.,
Hermann Pat Kelly, Corrig Avenue, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin.