Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The two main EU Defence Ministers who are publicly seeking to move closer towards EU defence co-operation, having a new military headquarters and swifter deployment on overseas missions are the French and the German Defence Ministers, Ursula von der Leyen and Jean-Yves le Drian. They put forward specific proposals in recent times which, by the looks of it, were to be discussed informally at the conference yesterday and today. The Minister of State may be able to clarify this, but as far as I know, we did not submit our own paper or circulate a brief to journalists on our position which would be in total opposition to the paper produced by them.

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