EUROPE AND THE EUROPEAN UNION

Spokesperson: Sean Neeson MLA

Last updated: 1 May 2004

Alliance is a strongly pro-European party. We have an excellent record of participation in wider European and international debates through our membership of the European Liberal Democratic and Reform (ELDR) Party, and Liberal International.

MANIFESTO PLEDGES (2003 NI Assembly)

• Alliance supports the enlargement of the European Union. Enlargement will create wider markets for Northern Ireland, and bring more and more people into the benefits of EU membership.
• Alliance supports the United Kingdom’s entry into the Euro at the earliest appropriate opportunity. Alliance believes that UK membership of the Euro is vital to the long-term economic interests of Northern Ireland, particularly given our land border with the Republic of Ireland.
• Alliance will establish a European Affairs Committee in the NI Assembly. This committee would monitor and prepare for developments within the European Union. Such a committee has already been established in the Oireachtas.

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