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In March 2011 Ireland will be voting; meanwhile, it is being said that 50,000 people could emigrate from Ireland this year, owing to a lack of available jobs.
The country not only needed a bail-out, but is expected to pay the borrowed money back with the interest. So, with the economy in turmoil in Ireland, and officially almost half a million people unemployed (official unemployment figures are usually a lot lower than the real ones in most countries), and tens of thousands of skilled people expected to emigrate, how will Ireland be able to pay back borrowed money?
I wouldn't press the Irish to do so either. I feel sorry that they fell for the EU carrot on a stick promise after having voted: NO! to the Lisbon Treaty, and then voted the opposite way a year later.
I would consider it fair for Britain to privilege Irish people to find work in Britain - together with the British. But Brussels would probably oppose this. For all that Belgium hasn't even got a government.
What does Ireland gain from the EU? I mean, sincerely speaking. The Irish people who emigrate do not go to Europe, they emigrate to other continents.