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Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024): Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: ..., the General Affairs Council had the opportunity to meet all of the accession countries and to hear the different opportunities and challenges they are facing as they implement rule of law and other changes to help move them along the accession process. Reforms have to be driven from within candidate countries themselves. The EU has a number of tools at its disposal to help with the...
Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024): Alice-Mary Higgins: ...there was this impetus. It was not just to make money from coal and steel. The Schuman Declaration stated that the pooling of coal and steel "will change the destinies of those regions which have long been devoted to the manufacture of munitions of war, of which they have been the most constant victims." The entire project of the European Union was a shift away from war. It happened at...
Seanad: Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2024): Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: .... I will explain my thinking in that regard. It is very important that Ireland has been militarily non-aligned. Of course, we have not had to participate. As Senator Byrne said, we have the longest continuous democracy, and that is true. That is because we have protected and preserved the political institutions and elections in this State. However, it is also because we did not...

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