Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 25 March 2004
32 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Defence his views on the recent release from the National Archives of a confidential document prepared by the Army intelligence section for the Chief of Staff in October 1973, entitled Military Implications of Ireland’s Entry into EEC. [9312/04]
View answerThe document referred to is more than 30 years old and reflects the views of the authors on the very different security environment, which obtained at that time. The world has since been transformed by the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, and by developments in UN peacekeeping and European security and defence policy.
