At the international European Movement Federal Assembly in Prague last Saturday President Pat Cox announced that he would be taking a sabbatical from that post to lead a pro-European civil society campaign in Ireland from a launch in Dublin.
See -
http://www.irelandforeurope.ie/index.html
http://blog.irelandforeurope.ie/
(Also the government's www.eumatters.ie)
Mr Northomb takes over as acting President of the European Movement.
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