John O’Brennan is a professor of European Politics at the Department of Sociology in the University of Maynooth. He also holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at the University.
As the risk of sounding mean-spirited, its worth explaining, as others did Monday night on X that while a ‘Jean Monnet Professor’ sounds very impressive, the position is, in fact, funded by the EU in universities across the member states to promote the EU’s outlook and encourage European integration – which is, of course, often achieved by encouraging countries, such as Ireland, to give up more and more of their sovereignty.
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