Sir, - Can someone explain to me why Ministers so favour EMU when it means a loss of our right to govern ourselves and the irreversible membership of an economically immoral federation of Europe? One in which over £200 million taxpayers' money was wasted last year in the destruction of fruit and vegetables to push prices artificially high? One in which farmers are paid not to produce? One in which the livelihoods of our fishermen are sacrificed at the whim of unelected Brussels bureaucrats? One of which Hans Tietmeyer, President of the German Central Bank, says: "A European currency will lead to member nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs"? Do they so despise this country? - Yours, etc.,
J. Neal, K. Ballyboggan,
Castlebridge,
Wexford.