{"id":85317,"date":"2025-05-08T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85317\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:43:08","slug":"eu-dealt-irexit-warning-as-support-for-bloc-in-ireland-falling-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/85317\/","title":{"rendered":"EU dealt ‘Irexit’ warning as support for bloc in Ireland falling | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new poll has revealed support for the European Union in Ireland has fallen to its lowest level since 2012. Support has been declining slowly since it hit a high in 2019 during Brexit<\/a> negotiations.<\/p>\n

At that time 93% of people expressed their continued backing for EU membership. Today that figure has fallen to 82%. The survey was carried out by Am\u00e1rach Research, for the European Movement Ireland (EMI). About a third of respondents believe the EU is failing to uphold its core values and 26% are unhappy with the direction it is going in.<\/p>\n

Concerns about migration (35%) and EU regulation (25%) were the top two key issues for those polled.<\/p>\n

EU asylum policies have been attacked by anti-immigration campaigners and far-Right parties in Ireland, which is in the grips of a housing crisis.<\/p>\n

Some Irish Eurosceptics want to bring the country out of the EU, and the proposed withdrawal is sometimes referred to as “Irexit”.<\/p>\n

In the 12 months to the end of April 2024, Ireland’s population rose by 98,700 people – the largest 12-month increase since 2008.<\/p>\n

There were 149,200 immigrants which was a 17-year high, and this was also the third successive 12-month period where over 100,000 people immigrated to Ireland.<\/p>\n

30,000 were returning Irish citizens, 27,000 were from EU states, and 5,400 were from the UK.<\/p>\n

The remaining 86,800 immigrants were citizens of other countries, according g to Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO).<\/p>\n

EMI’s chief executive Noelle O’Connell said it was encouraging to still see strong support for EU membership, but warned that the country “cannot be complacent” about support for EU membership.<\/p>\n

“It is clear that we cannot be complacent, with some people expressing dissatisfaction with the EU\u2019s current trajectory and Irish influence at EU level,” she added.<\/p>\n

Supporters of the EU point to the major economic benefits Ireland has enjoyed as a member of the bloc, which it joined in 1973.<\/p>\n

Se\u00e1n Kelly, an Irish MEP who is aligned with the European People’s Party, wrote in a previous opinion piece: “EU membership has certainly delivered economic benefits to Ireland, having received over \u20ac40 billion in EU funds from 1973 until 2018, as a net recipient of the EU budget.<\/p>\n

“The Single Market accounted for 40 % of total Irish exports in 2020. This market is said to represent more than \u20ac30 billion in added value to our economy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new poll has revealed support for the European Union in Ireland has fallen to its lowest level…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[11330,21111,2000,299,5187,1699,40,678,41051,1220],"class_list":{"0":"post-85317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-brussels","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-immigration","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-micheu00e1l-martin","17":"tag-ursula-von-der-leyen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114473690998172643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85317","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=85317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}