European Movement International

Where is Ireland in the EU and what is the EU and its future? So no better woman to do this today than Noel, because Noel has been the former CEO of European Movement Ireland.

and she's currently the Vice President for European Movement International.

In this context, she's worked in the EU arena for nearly 20 years, and she has direct experience of several Irish presidencies over the years.

So very happy to have you with us today, Noelle.

Excellent.

So, Noel, you served as CEO of European Movement Ireland for 14 years.

And of course, you are currently still vice president of European Movement International.

And that's a time span that's ranging from the Troika and the Fiscal Stability Treaty referendum to the 2013 Irish EU presidency, Brexit referendum.

So it's grown.

And the largest, where it's interesting, because I dig down into the stats of the opinion polls, Eurobarometer, European Movement, the gap where people are most, they're not most Eurosceptic, where the biggest anti-European sentiment is, is the age group just above me and they're the people who got screwed by the crash.

So that is not necessarily the EU.

They're the people who went into negative equity, who really struggled, maybe lost their job at a time where you don't want to be losing a job.