to discuss that i'm knowledge oin by the country's minister for european affairs pascal donahue mr donahue thank you very much for your time i know that when i was celebrating the thirty if thirtieth anniversary of joining the euro there was this whole program of exhibitions and conferences to solve their cation but we don't see. that level of celebration this time around and i wonder whether it is due to all this perhaps it reflects maybe a broader more skeptical reassessment of joining the e.u. well the main reason for the change in diet mood is the scale of the economic crisis that audience house and jerked over the last five years. we gone through a period in which our economy went to a very sharp decline we saw on employment go up do we how to deal with a very very difficult. crisis within our banking system. and because of all of dos it's understandable that people are not read the mood to celebrate anything. because of the difficulty that many people feel. we are seeing for the first time now in five years some saw and the scale of difficulty is coming to an end we're seeing up. pri

mr donahue member talking about immigration in our land. as you said it's a very pressing issue but europe as a whole has to deal with broader much larger issue of incoming immigration and i'm talking about refugees from africa. the middle east. some of that's related to the conflict in syria and in libya and i think ireland has a very unique position here because on the one hand for decades you've been receiving country and now you are once again a country of immigrants how do you think this issue should be dealt with in a broader european context other it's a hugely difficult and sensitive issue the three elements to how we believe the should be handled better in the future the first one is that we have to do all we can to make sure that people are not in a position to have to leave their country and region because of the terrible violence and state that's occurring there and europe a role to play there secondly we need to ensure that if they are travelling across the seeds as many of them have been done more be drawn to ensure that as pe

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