Dublin, 9 June 2021: European Movement Ireland, the longest established NGO in Ireland dealing with Irish – European affairs, today announced that Julie Sinnamon, former CEO of Enterprise Ireland, has taken over as Chair of its Board of Directors, succeeding Maurice Pratt. Paying tribute to outgoing Chair Maurice Pratt, CEO of EM Ireland, Noelle O…
In this Just the Facts, we examine the current state of play of the EU’s Vaccines Strategy, the challenges, criticism and lessons from the EU’s response, and give an overview of the latest key developments including the ‘Digital Green Certificate’. Background and Challenges The European Commission presented its Vaccines Strategy in June 2020. At its…
In European Movement Ireland’s Ireland and the EU Poll 2021, carried out in March 2021, 52% of respondents agreed that “now is the time to hold a Conference on the Future of Europe to reform the EU, even if it results in a referendum in Ireland”. With the Conference officially launched on 9 May 2021,…
The 2021 Dutch General Election was held over the course of three days between 15 and 17 of March in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) will become the largest party with 35 seats, according to preliminary results/ Democracy 66 (D66), led by Sigrid Kaag, significantly increased its support, becoming the second largest party with an expected 24 seats, an increase of five. Introduction: General Elections in…
Introduction An information revolution has been underway for about the last 20 years. As technology has developed, its power has grown dramatically to the point where most people in Europe get some or all of their information from online digital media. This has radically altered both the volume and quality of the information we can…
WATCH IN FULL HERE: European of the Year Award Ceremony for Michel Barnier 📅 10:00am (GMT) | Thursday 21 January 2021 | Online European Movement Ireland are delighted to invite you to the online European of the Year Award Ceremony for Head of Task Force for Relations with the UK, Michel Barnier. European Movement Ireland’s…
In the latest instalment of EM Ireland’s ‘Just the Facts’ series, we will be exploring Ireland’s recent general election, held on 8 February, from an EU perspective. Sinn Féin, for the first time, received the highest share of votes in a general election. This is a change to the status quo in the Irish political…
European Movement Ireland is an independent, not-for-profit, membership-based organisation working to develop the connection between Ireland and Europe since its founding in 1954. As per our practice at general elections, European Movement Ireland has published this factual overview of excerpts from political party manifestos framed around a number of EU issues. This is to provide…
On Sunday 10 November, Spain held its fourth general election in four years, after its political parties failed to reach a governing deal in the wake of April’s inconclusive polls. Spaniards elected the 14th Cortes Generales (both houses of parliament) with all 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies up for election, as well as…
Introduction: Portugal is one of the few countries in Europe yet to see the rise of an electorally significant far-right populist movement. The recent European Parliament elections confirmed this with the ruling Socialist Party (PS) winning 33% of the vote, the first time in 20 years a governing party had topped a European poll. Prime…