{"id":775303,"date":"2026-02-19T17:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/775303\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:32:15","slug":"sean-kelly-claims-mercosur-rhetoric-could-have-been-on-side-of-brexit-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/775303\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Kelly claims Mercosur rhetoric could have been on side of Brexit bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Ireland South MEP from Kerry has said some of the claims made during the Mercosur debate wouldn&#8217;t have been out of place on the side of a red double decker bus driven by Nigel Farage.<\/p>\n<p>Fine Gael\u2019s Se\u00e1n Kelly was addressing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oireachtas.ie\/en\/visit-and-learn\/how-parliament-works\/role-of-the-oireachtas\/seanad-eireann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Seanad \u00c9ireann<\/a> on the importance of protecting Ireland\u2019s reputation in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>He said Ireland should not assume it is immune to the kind of misinformation seen during the Brexit campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Kilcummin native, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/sean-kelly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Se\u00e1n Kelly<\/a>,\u00a0claimed some of rhetoric before the Mercosur trade deal stalled in the European parliament, echoed Brexit-style populism.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged the debate around Mercosur included misleading claims, particularly about food safety.<\/p>\n<p>MEP Kelly warned that if Ireland is seen as unreliable or aligned with protectionist positions, it risks reputational damage at EU level:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Ireland South MEP from Kerry has said some of the claims made during the Mercosur debate wouldn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,226375,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-775303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-mercosur-rhetoric","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116098494938262270","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}