The European Movement in Northern Ireland (EMNI) – the longest established pro-European organisation in the North- has rejected comments by shadow international trade secretary, Barry Gardiner, that a referendum on the final Brexit deal would cause ‘social unrest’ and instead has called on the British Labour Party to support a Peoples Vote.

The European Movement in Northern Ireland launched the first event in a weekend across the continent to ‘Shine a light for Europe’.

Ahead of an event in Belfast on 24 February, the EMNI Chair has warned Brexit creates ‘hard edges’ in a problem the Good Friday Agreement ‘had softened’.

The Chairperson of the European Movement in Northern Ireland (EMNI) Donal Lyons has warned that the economy ‘doesn’t run on bravado’ following a leaked report which suggested the Northern Ireland economy would take a 12% hit if there is no deal between the UK and EU.

The outgoing European Movement NI Chair has warned there is a ‘very serious risk, given yet another failure by the UK Government to clarify its own negotiating position, that UK-EU relations will be badly damaged and that the island of Ireland will bear the brunt of the punishment for this’.

The European Movement in Northern Ireland has responded to reports that an internal EU paper has suggested that the avoidance of a hard border on the island of Ireland ‘effectively requires Northern Ireland remaining in the single market and the customs union’.

The European Movement in Northern Ireland (EMNI) has said the speech by the British Prime Minister in Florence on 22 September did not put forward any ideas to deal with the border on the island of Ireland as the UK leaves the Customs Union.

  The European Movement in Northern Ireland (EMNI) has said solutions have still not been found to mitigate the effects of the Hard Brexit on Northern Ireland.

The European Movements in UK and Northern Ireland have responded to the British Government’s position paper which outlines the UK’s position on addressing the ‘unique circumstances of Northern Ireland and the land border with Ireland’.

The European Movement in NI has welcomed the publication by the Centre for Cross Border Studies (CCBS) and Co-operation Ireland of an update of the last of its five briefing papers from last year.