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Article: Lisbon Treaty referendum
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- September 25, 2009
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Madam, - In your Editorial of September 18th you are moved to
dispute a prediction from the Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD)
group that Turkish membership of the EU will lead to further mass
migration into Ireland.
In that regard may I remind you that your newspaper's track
record on such predictions is less than impressive. For example in
an Editorial (August 22nd, 2002) during the debate on the second
Nice referendum you were happy to add your support to the following
statement from Dick Roche, then, as now, Minister for European
Affairs, when he declared . . . "existing surveys on migration
patterns in Europe show that the claims [of mass migration] are
false. Ireland barely ...