Red C Poll

More than half of voters support President’s censure of von der Leyen

Just 19 per cent of people polled believe Higgins went ‘too far’ in criticism of EU Commission president’s unilateral backing of Israel after Hamas attack

President Michael D Higgins: ‘Certainly we need a better performance in relation to European Union diplomacy and practice’ . Picture: Maxwells

More than half of Irish voters support President Michael D Higgins’s criticism of Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, for her stance on Israel.

The latest Business Post/Red C poll shows that 52 per cent of people said they felt the president was correct in his rebuke to von der Leyen last week. Higgins described her initial response to the war between Israel and Hamas as “reckless” and said she was “not speaking ...