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Irish academics offer insights into Ireland’s increasingly outward-looking place in the world as mediated through the EU and its institutions
The EU is now slipping back into recession as much of the rest of the world steams ahead
She steered the continent through the pandemic. She has massively increased the powers of the European Commission. And she has led a response to the challenges of climate change, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and competition from China.
John Bruton, who has died aged 76, was Fine Gael prime minister of the Irish Republic from 1994 to 1997, as peace in the North remained frustratingly out of reach. Apparently in sight when Bruton took office, it would only be achieved on Good Friday 1998 under his Fianna Fail successor, Bertie Ahern.
A French Eurocrat determined my career. It was thanks to Jacques Delors that, as an 18-year-old undergraduate, I set up the Oxford Campaign for an Independent Britain. It was in opposition to his plan for political amalgamation that, with the Tory MP Michael Spicer, I formed the European Research Group. It was because Britain could never be comfortable inside a European superstate that I spent 21 years as a Eurosceptic MEP, recruited Matthew Elliott to be chief executive of Vote Leave and, in th