Summary
ALEX ORR (May 10) is disappointed that The Herald failed to mention Europe Day. Perhaps he missed your report of May 6 on the European commission's latest eurobarometer. This disclosed, yet again, widespread alienation from the EU by its "citizens" throughout Europe, with the UK behind Austria and Latvia in the league table of disaffected peoples. If The Herald saw no reason to celebrate the occasion it was only reflecting the view of two- thirds of the UK population.
Mr Orr reminds us that it was on May 9 in 1950 that the Coal and Steel Community, the seed-bed of the EU, was set up by Robert Schuman. And what happened to the British coal and steel industries after we joined the ECSC alongside its then sister organisation, the EEC, in 1972? Precisely what happened to our farming and fisheries.See the full content of this document
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No Public Desire to Celebrate Europe Day
But Mr Orr makes no attempt to justify membership on the grou...
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