Seanad debates

Wednesday, 25 June 2003

Military Neutrality: Motion.

 

We should acknowledge that the drift is clearly in that direction and that the debate should take place. There are certain aspects about which we must be clear. It would not be possible for those of us on the left to accept that a European security policy would be underpinned by a nuclear deterrent. We could not accept that it would effectively be the European arm of NATO. We would require that any European foreign and defence policy should, in effect, be a counterweight to what is decided by the State Department or the Pentagon in Washington and not merely a reflection on the European continent of that policy. None of those things is currently happening.

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