We can’t compromise on rights of our EU citizens

THE EU is an awesome endeavour allowing Europe to compete globally and no European economy can afford not to be part of it. Grounded in nondiscrimination

of any of its citizens, any compromise is a betrayal of its 500 million citizens.

Demanding the right to sell goods and services to all EU citizens, but also the right to forbid some of them from working in the UK on equal terms with all UK citizens is a step too far from equality of treatment and nondiscrimination for acceptance.

Reserving freedom of movement only for an elite cohort of citizens is returning the EU to individual economies where the wealthiest can buy the skills and technology of the best educated from poorer economies to gain unfair competitive advantage.

The EU is a partnership of 28 economies whose citizens are entitled to full democratic governance, which includes non-negotiable fundamental rights to equality of treatment. Demanding to limit those rights on grounds of nationality is unlawful and immoral.

The people of Northern Ireland would never contemplate joining the Republic without guarantees of constitutional rights presently not enforced, while the Republic would have to borrow all of the subvention presently enjoyed by the North. Michael McPhillips

Ballymun, Dublin 9