“You know, the European Union is like dry Weetabix. You know it’s good for you, but it’s just tough to get through.

The EU permeates so many areas of daily life […], from the coins in your pockets to the bus that gets you around the place, to preventing people putting horse meat in your sausages without telling you. It is pretty mundane stuff, but like gravity, you’d only start missing it if it wasn’t there.  

And if you think it’s boring trying to understand it, imagine trying to explain it. […]

We at European Movement Ireland want to tell the European story a little differently and we’re starting by asking you to imagine what Ireland and the world would be like without the European Union. To help picture this, we asked Jason O’Mahony, author of the “The Spoofers Guide to the Lisbon Treaty”, to write a newspaper of the future for a world where there is no EU. […]”

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