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Irish neutralitily and the greens

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday June 20, 2002 16:01author by Mark

Green Party leader Trevor Sargent has criticised the Government for not allowing members of the Opposition to see a document on neutrality before it is debated in Europe.

(taken from RTE news)
Green Party leader Trevor Sargent has criticised the Government for not allowing members of the Opposition to see a document on neutrality before it is debated in Europe.

The Government will call on European Union leaders to support its declaration on neutrality at the Summit in Seville this weekend. Mr Sargent said that the matter should have been debated in the Dáil first.

The Minister of State for European Affairs, Dick Roche, said the declaration will be debated in the Dáil in due course. This is an obvious delaying tactic on behalf of the Govt.

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Greens & Nice
author by Oliver O'Driscollpublication date Thu Jun 20, 2002 21:42author address author phone

Two questions spring to mind, (a) is the policy of the Green party, one of calling for a no vote. (b) If the policy of the party is still opposition to Nice, how does Trevor Sargent reconcile this policy with his willingness to join a government where his "partners" would fully support the Nice treaty.

A fair point
author by HS - Socialist partypublication date Fri Jun 21, 2002 01:21author address author phone

A fair point and that could go for Sinn Fein too.
I would love to hear an answer from both parties

greens
author by red dubpublication date Fri Jun 21, 2002 02:09author address author phone

To be fair, the Greens did make renegotiation a pre-requisite for entry to Government. They insisted it was a deal breaker.

as for SF, the same is most certainly not true

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