Post European Council Meeting: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2025-03-26
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

Okay. I just want to elaborate in order that people understand. They are saying that they are prompting the European Union to spend more on defence, which Ursula von der Leyen and this Council are promising to do, with the current EU expenditure on weapons, at €356 billion, more than doubling to €800 billion, in their interests. The same regime is threatening tariffs against Europe and this country. Deputy McGrath thinks we should cuddle up to it, by the way. What does the Minister of State think about that? Does he think we ought to be dancing to their tune?
On the issue of the war bonds -----

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