Last weekend, Mayday organisation held a meeting to campaign against the Nice Treaty and to discuss the effect that globalisation of the EU will have on poverty and those on low pay. Mayday was set up in 1998 to fight against unemployment and protect the welfare state.
Speaking to the EUobserver.com, a spokesperson from Mayday warned that the Nice Treaty will have an adverse affect on Ireland's welfare state. "We reject an EU that stands for globalisation and big business, while ignorin...
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