Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Not really. It is very clear. We are participating in PESCO. We are founder members of PESCO. We had a referendum on the Lisbon treaty. People voted for it. I was proud to lead us into PESCO during my first term as Taoiseach. PESCO is the European structured co-operation on defence and security. We are not going to join NATO, but NATO is made up of many countries that are allies, for example, EU states, the UK, the US and Canada. We co-operate with them through the Partnership for Peace and have done for more than 20 years.

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