 Ireland and the EEC – 1968
By Brendan Halligan
This document, from the archives, is an address given by Brendan Halligan to the Dublin Institute of Adult Education in 1968, five years before Ireland finally joined the EEC. Noting that the move into Europe was to be a political move, as opposed to an economic one, Brendan explores the implications of this, and the prospects for the coming years of a new Europe.
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The Future of European Integration
By Brendan Halligan
Examining the future of European integration as a process in which sovereignty is being progressively shared on a voluntary basis by countries which elect to do so, Brendan Halligan focusses on three separate but inter-related aspects: an enlarging membership, an expanding agenda, and a deepening interdependence.
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 Altiero Spinelli: A tribute
By Brendan Halligan
One of the founding fathers of the European Union, Altiero Spinelli was a co-author of the historic Ventotene Manifesto, an influential figure in the European federalist movement and later a member of the European Commission, and MEP. This paper explores the man, his personal story and his success as a European innovator and facilitator.
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Strategies for a Small State in Large Union – The Dr. Garret Fitzgerald Lecture 2013
By Brendan Halligan
One of Ireland’s true international Statesmen, Garret FitzGerald became Foreign Minister at the moment Ireland joined the EU. The paper’s primary focus is statecraft, and how he managed the affairs of a nation in its relations with the outside world.
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Ever Closer Union
By Brendan Halligan
The phrase “ever closer union” implies a dynamic process where the aim is to bring the peoples of Europe closer in a series of steps, as defined by the original six founding countries of the European Union. In this paper, Brendan Halligan explores this process.
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 Small State in a Large Union – Scottish lecture
By Brendan Halligan
Brendan Halligan recently gave a lecture on A Small State in a Large Union: The Irish Experience to the Europa Institute at the University of Edinburgh on 1 September 2014.
It focuses on the political strategy employed by Ireland throughout its membership of the European Union and analyses the principles upon which it is based.
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 Britain, Ireland and EMU: the currency dilemma (1994)
By Brendan Halligan
Three years before the Maastricht Treaty was due to come into effect in 1999, Brendan Halligan wrote about the proposed monetary union, exploring the complex economic relationships between the major European players, and possible repercussions for Ireland.
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This article was published on 4 April, 2017 in The Courant, an independent publication. It looks at how the BREXIT move has opened a long-standing question in the Republic of Ireland.
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With BREXIT currently at the forefront of Irish political and economic concerns, Brendan Halligan her contributes to a series of analyses of the situation from a series on the IIEA website, “BREXIT Insight”. This contribution is No 9 in the series, and was published 22 May 2017.
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