Musk calls on Ireland to quit the European Union
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American businessman Elon Musk has called on Ireland and all other countries to leave the EU, according to his social media page on X and The Irish Times.
“Ireland should leave the EU. All countries should imo. It is destroying democracy in Europe,” he stated.
Ireland should leave the EU.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 1, 2025
All countries should imo. It is destroying democracy in Europe.
What prompted Elon Musk’s statement
Musk posted this message in the context of ongoing legal proceedings regarding the obligation of governments to accept and provide housing for refugees seeking asylum within the European Union.
Specifically, this case involves two asylum seekers, one from Afghanistan and one from India, who remained homeless for an extended period after being denied housing in Ireland.
Recently, the High Court of the European Union ruled that failing to provide shelter to homeless asylum seekers violated their fundamental right to dignity.
Ireland appealed this decision to the EU Court of Appeal. On July 30, the court recognized that individuals arriving in Ireland seeking asylum and left without housing are in a state of extreme material deprivation. However, the court did not find sufficient evidence that they were in a state of humiliation incompatible with human dignity.
Subsequently, the High Court referred the matter for interpretation to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
On August 1, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg ruled that governments cannot justify a lack of housing by denying asylum seekers shelter.
This decision came in response to a referral from the Irish High Court in December 2023. Since then, according to Ireland’s Ministry of Justice, single male asylum seekers no longer have a guaranteed right to housing due to a shortage of accommodation places.
In its August 1 ruling, the ECJ stated that EU law must be interpreted as meaning that a Member State which, for several weeks, has failed to provide (an asylum seeker) access to (housing), cannot avoid liability under EU law by citing a temporary exhaustion of accommodation capacity… caused by an influx of third-country nationals seeking temporary or international protection.
The ruling further emphasized that the government cannot avoid responsibility even if such an influx was significant, sudden, unforeseen, and unavoidable.
The case will now return to the Irish High Court, which will issue a final ruling based on the ECJ’s binding interpretation of EU law.
As of July 30, 942 men were awaiting housing offers as asylum seekers in Ireland.
Migrants in the EU
Since the start of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the EU’s Temporary Protection Directive has provided refuge to nearly 4.3 million Ukrainians.
However, the legal status of millions of Ukrainian refugees now faces uncertainty. Currently, Brussels lacks a clear plan to allow these people to remain in EU countries after the ceasefire with Russia.
Expert Andrii Haidutskyi explained to RBC-Ukraine which European countries are most interested in keeping Ukrainians on their territory.
A week ago, US President Donald Trump called on European countries to stop the large-scale migration, warning that otherwise they will no longer have Europe.
