{"id":200345,"date":"2025-11-26T01:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/200345\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T01:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:15:16","slug":"enda-kenny-says-eu-will-be-forced-to-make-realistic-decisions-in-the-coming-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/200345\/","title":{"rendered":"Enda Kenny says EU will be forced to make \u2018realistic\u2019 decisions in the coming decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enda Kenny speaking after he received an award at Trinity College this evening. Photo: Paul Sharp.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2a17e5e9-ee3d-433d-abb0-a6c5e74f02e3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Enda Kenny speaking after he received an award at Trinity College this evening. Photo: Paul Sharp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The European Union will be forced to make far more realistic decisions about its future in the face of an isolationist United States with the potential for serious changes over the next decade, former taoiseach Enda Kenny has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Speaking ahead of Ireland assuming the presidency of the Council of the European Union next year, the former Fine Gael leader warned that progress made by Ireland as a member of the EU since the depths of the recession \u201cshould not be taken for granted\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enda Kenny speaking after he received an award at Trinity College this evening. Photo: Paul Sharp. The European&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,52,18,17858,4893,13,14,4771,553,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5765,5,7,8,22482,1543],"class_list":{"0":"post-200345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-enda-kenny","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-fianna-fail","17":"tag-fine-gael","18":"tag-headlines","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-latest-news","22":"tag-latestnews","23":"tag-main-news","24":"tag-mainnews","25":"tag-micheal-martin","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-top-stories","28":"tag-topstories","29":"tag-trinity-college-dublin","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115613356766102532","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}