{"id":530564,"date":"2026-07-03T05:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/530564\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:25:22","slug":"ireland-and-the-eu-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/530564\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland and the EU \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir, \u2013 Eoin Drea raises important policy questions for Ireland, particularly in relation to solidarity with other EU member states (\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2026\/06\/30\/eoin-drea-ireland-eu-presidency-brussels-budget-tax-contribution-economy-crisis\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/opinion\/2026\/06\/30\/eoin-drea-ireland-eu-presidency-brussels-budget-tax-contribution-economy-crisis\/\">Ireland\u2019s budget plan has a name: \u2018Sure it\u2019ll be grand<\/a>\u2019,\u201d Opinion, June 30th). We have heard of some countries, especially Hungary in the recent past, blocking EU policymaking, but on several counts Ireland has been a source of frustration for EU policymaking, something being increasingly highlighted internationally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">For example, we reluctantly agreed some years back to a global minimum corporation tax rate. We have also been resisting plans for a proposed EU savings and investment union. We oppose cuts in expenditure on the Common Agricultural Policy and yet challenge the introduction of new \u201cown\u201d revenue sources for the EU. On defence we do not contribute in any meaningful way to EU security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">However, the fact that Ireland\u2019s annual net contributions to the EU budget are \u20ac57 per head annually higher than Denmark, highlighted by Drea, is a non-issue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ireland has benefited enormously from corporation tax revenue, some would argue at the expense of other counties, and it is only right that we must contribute this small extra sum to the EU coffers, once this source of revenue continues. Besides, EU net contributions per member state are minuscule compared with the economic gains related to membership of the EU single market. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">JOHN O\u2019HAGAN,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Department of Economics,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Trinity College,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir, \u2013 Eoin Drea raises important policy questions for Ireland, particularly in relation to solidarity with other EU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-530564","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\/530564","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=530564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}