Leo Varadkar Raises Question of Irish Neutrality in Farewell Speech

Leo Varadkar has used his farewell speech as Taoiseach to raise the question of Irish neutrality – and warn that we must be prepared for a military attack on the EU.

He noted that challenges like the financial crash, Brexit, the COVID pandemic, inflation, the energy crisis, climate change and migration all have origins outside of Ireland.He went on to say that even challenges like health and housing have a “strong international element” – with many other countries facing the same problems.

“Some European countries are debating the introduction of national service, others are raising taxes, cutting spending and reducing public holidays to pay for increased defence expenditure.“European leaders I speak to see very dark clouds on the near horizon. He noted that Ireland’s geography and neutrality “does not protect us in the way it did in the past” adding that, “the nature of security threats has changed utterly”.

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