Madam, - It may be of interest to your readers to note that of the 6,000 amendments tabled to the draft European Constitution in the Convention on the Future of Europe over a period of 18 months, not a single one came from Sinn Féin.
Amendments were received from all corners of Europe from non-governmental organisations, political parties and individuals. Hundreds were incorporated in whole or in part and many more were worked into the general approach taken by the participants from all sides.
Now Sinn Féin is advising the Irish people to vote against the proposed Constitution because they claim it does not meet the party's high standards of participative democracy. - Yours, etc.,
PROINSIAS DE ROSSA MEP, Labour Party European Office, Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.