IRELAND South MEP Mick Wallace says that people are struggling with the cost of living because the EU is focused on military spending.
Mr Wallace, a candidate for Independents4Change for Ireland South, is a member of the Parliament’s subcommittee on security and defence, and has been critical of continued EU support for military aid for Ukraine and has been accused of being sympathetic to Russia. Wallace maintains that Ukraine is being used by the US and Nato to undermine Russia.
‘We are spending billions and billions on military build-up instead of housing and healthcare, while the new EU economic governance framework is an austerity package that will further restrict the fiscal space member states need to invest in affordable and social housing, in job creation and decent work,’ he said. ‘We need to build an EU that puts the people’s interests before those of big business.’
‘Society only works when people care for each other, the EU will only work when it learns to care for all its people in a fair manner.’
Mr Wallace will host a Q&A on the European Union at the Rock Centre in Cork city on May 16th.
