It’s an occasional occupational hazard of writing that somebody else will make the point you intended to make in an article the day before you’ve sat down to write your own. That happened to me, yesterday, when Dr. Eoin Drea took to the pages of the Irish Times to point out a sobering reality: That Ireland’s stock in Brussels has plummeted, and that the appointment of Michael McGrath to the EU’s Justice Portfolio is evidence of that:
“The reality is that in a decade Ireland has gone from holding agriculture and rural development (a third of the EU budget), to trade (the crown jewel of the EU’s competencies) via financial services (stripped of the important bits) to the thankless task of policing wannabe European dictators under a “democracy shield”…..
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