Bravo, President Michael D Higgins, who has brought clarity regarding the UN with the following words: “It is unable to stop war, it is unable to end famine, it is unable to stop conflicts, it is unable to manage migration and it will be saved by countries like Ireland who have no other aim or ambition than to have a safe, sustainable and peaceful world.”
You quote the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in the recent State of the (European) Union address, “The Call of History”, as follows, “In a world where size and weight matters, it is clearly in Europe’s strategic interest [to expand]” (Irish Independent, Editorial, September 14).
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