Dublin, Tuesday, 9 May 2017: Primary school children throughout Ireland will today once again ‘shake hands across Europe’ to mark Europe Day, 9 May 2017. Nearly 165 schools with more than 12,500 participating pupils, in communities in every county of Ireland will participate in their own events. At Iveagh House in Dublin today, Minister for…
European Movement Ireland Statement on UK invoking Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union Dublin, Wednesday 29 March, 2017: In the wake of UK Prime Minister Theresa May invoking Article 50 today, European Movement (EM) Ireland is calling for Ireland to use its voice fully across all the negotiating tables. Speaking earlier today, Chairperson…
Dublin, Tuesday 24 January, 2017: The UK’s Supreme Court has today upheld, by a majority vote of 8 judges to 3, the ruling that parliamentary approval is required to invoke Article 50. However, the judges unanimously rejected the notion that Westminster has a legal obligation to seek the consent of the devolved administrations before doing…
European Movement Ireland Statement on UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Speech Dublin, Tuesday 17 January, 2017: In the wake of UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech today in which she announced that the UK would not seek to retain membership of the European Single Market once it has left the EU, European Movement (EM) Ireland…
Dublin, Monday, 18 April, 2016: European Movement Ireland is today launching an online voter registration drive for the UK’s EU ‘In-Out’ referendum. The awareness raising campaign is aimed at two distinct groups: Irish-born people who live in the UK; British citizens who live in Ireland. European Movement Ireland is urging them to register to vote…
Tribute was paid to former President of the European Parliament and former President of European Movement International, Pat Cox, at a reception hosted by An Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Eamon Gilmore TD, in Iveagh House this evening. Current President of European Movement International, German MEP, Jo Leinen, led the tribute to Mr Cox,…
Dublin 11 January 2013: Today, 11 January 2013, European Movement Ireland celebrates the 59th anniversary of the founding of the organisation. EM Ireland is the oldest Irish organisation dealing with the EU. Forty years on from Ireland’s accession to the EU, EM Ireland continues to work to campaign for every Irish person to get involved…
EM Ireland banishes “triskaidekaphobia” in favour of optimism for the opportunities on offer to Ireland in 2013 Following the launch of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU earlier this week, the Dublin-based not-for-profit, independent organisation, European Movement Ireland (EM Ireland), is today calling on all Irish citizens to banish any phobias they…
Dublin, 7 February 2012: The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD and Minister of State for European Affairs, Lucinda Creighton TD launched a new pilot programme for primary schools which focuses on the EU, called the Blue Star Programme. The idea of the Programme is simple, to foster better understanding and knowledge of the European Union and…
Dublin, 10 January 2012: On 11 January 2012, European Movement Ireland celebrates the 58th anniversary of the foundingof the organisation. The oldest Irish organisation dealing with the EU, pre-dating Ireland’s membership of the EU in 1973 by almost twenty years, today European Movement Ireland continues to campaign for every Irish person to get involved with…