WORK going on "behind closed doors" in Brussels and Luxembourg indicates that Ireland is agreeing to sell out on neutrality, said the Green MEP, Ms Patricia McKenna.
It was "deeply regrettable" that the Government had not availed off its period in the EU presidency to assert Ireland's right to remain neutral, she added.
Speaking yesterday during a visit to Dublin of most of the 27 MEPs from the Green group in the European Parliament, Ms McKenna said that, far from asserting neutrality, the Tanaiste, Mr Spring, last week had said that Ireland could join NATO's Partnership for Peace without a referendum.
This demonstrated that the Government was quite happy "to chip away at the face of neutrality until it becomes an unrecognisable relation of what it used to be", she said.
