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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.

In this opinion piece, former MEP John Cushnahan argues that an inclusive project is needed to highlight the interests of Northern Ireland as negotiations on the triggering of Article 50 loom.

The European Movement NI Chair has said the organisation has already prepared to challenge Brexit at every stage, as the UK Government triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, notifying the EU of its intention to leave.

In a letter to the ‘Irish Times’ in August, the President of the European Movement in Northern Ireland (EMNI) Brian Garrett and long-standing member Dennis Kennedy argue that it is in the interests of Ireland and the UK, and of the rest of the EU, that the closest possible association between the UK and the EU

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Following the result of the Referendum on UK membership of the EU, the Chair of European Movement in Northern Ireland, Ian Parsley, tries to assess what leaving the EU now means for Northern Ireland.

A month before the Referendum on UK membership of the EU, the European Movement Northern Ireland has welcomed recent decisions by important umbrella groups in NI to support remaining in the EU.