MEP Wallace for Nenagh event

Mick Wallace, MEP for Ireland South, will host a question and answer event on the future of the European Union in Nenagh, entitled ‘Where is Europe going?

The event will take place in Nenagh Arts Centre on Thursday week, May 9, at 8pm.

Mr Wallace has been a member of the European Parliament since 2019.

He is a member of the Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Mr Wallace is a candidate for Independents 4 Change in the upcoming European Parliament election on June 7.

FUTURE OF EU

In the question and answer session, Mr Wallace will discuss the future of the European Union and what it means for Ireland.

He will discuss the cost of living crisis, austerity and the EU fiscal rules, the militarisation of the EU, Irish neutrality, the war in Gaza, Ursula von der Leyen, the Asylum and Migration Pact, the climate and biodiversity crises and the European Green Deal, EU agricultural policy and a range of other subjects.

Mr Wallace said: “Decisions are made every day in Brussels that impact how our society is organised.

And for some time now the decisions being made in Brussels are negatively affecting the ordinary people of Ireland, and ordinary people across Europe.

“Right now, the interests of corporations and big business dominate so much of EU policy and that needs to change.”

Hotpress magazine said of Mr Wallace and his Independents 4 Change colleague, MEP Clare Daly, back in 2015:

“There’s no shortage of influential figures in Ireland who’d be more than happy to see the troublesome pair flattened.”

Mr Wallace commented: “And yet we are still here, alive and kicking!”

Mr Wallace added: “I am an Independent. I don’t answer to any party, I speak as I see fit - without fear or favour.”

Mr Wallace, was a property developer prior to entering politics and has represented the Ireland South Constituency since 2019.