{"id":510212,"date":"2026-06-20T21:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510212\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T21:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T21:50:10","slug":"eu-has-no-credibility-on-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510212\/","title":{"rendered":"EU has &#8216;no credibility&#8217; on human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Michael D Higgins has criticised the European Union, accusing the bloc of lacking any credibility on human rights and international law.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a forum on neutrality in Dublin, Mr Higgins referenced the upcoming Irish Presidency of the EU Council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish the Irish Presidency well, and I think that it will be at its best when it seeks to restore a moderate credibility of some small stock to the European Union. The European Union has no credibility in relation to rights, human rights, the most basic norms of international law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Higgins also spoke about intolerance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The waves of hate that are being produced by other people outside of this jurisdiction altogether are simply so appalling and such a rejection of everything we stand for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was one of several speakers at a two-day event &#8211; the People&#8217;s Forum on Peace and Neutrality.<\/p>\n<p>Several speakers spoke out against the Government&#8217;s proposal to remove the triple lock which governs the sending of Irish troops abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former president Michael D Higgins has criticised the European Union, accusing the bloc of lacking any credibility on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-510212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}