Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The joint French-German paper calls for a new European security contract. In this, NATO wants all other members to increase their spending to 2% of GDP. I hope the Minister will answer my question fully, rather than skate around it. Does he not agree that this would fundamentally change the character of the European Union from a supposed peace and economic project to a project that is more aggressive and in reality is giving a subsidy to the competitiveness of the arms industry and its capacity to export abroad, which will not serve our interests?

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