IRISH NEUTRALITY OVER, SAYS ‘EXPERT’

Esa Pulkkinen

THE ASSERTION by Lieutenant General Esa Polkkinen, director general of policy at Finland’s defence ministry, that neutrality is “over” for Ireland and that we should double or treble our defence budget was, of course, published without qualification by the Irish Times last week. The newspaper could have noted that Finland was a neutral, non-aligned country… Read more »

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