Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 March 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources

3:15 pm

Mr. Günther Oettinger:

Please accept that, as a German, I am defensive. Because of what Germany did to Jewish people, we have to defend this as Germans, or at least be neutral and not accuse Israel, whatever it is doing. Please ask my president and others but here I am in a national conflict.