Carol Fox: Irish reputation as peacekeepers will be damaged by ties to nuclear-armed Nato

We will be told there’s no question of joining Nato but our neutrality has to be 'redefined'. Part of that 'redefining' is an ever-closer partnership with Nato through the Partnership for Peace

A joint declaration on EU-Nato co-operation was agreed in January, stating that a European defence must be 'complementary to, and interoperable with Nato'. Picture: Ana Brigida/AP

THE forum road show is under way, carefully staged and scripted to achieve a certain result. President Higgins has done a public service by turning a spotlight on it.

We will be told there’s no question of joining Nato but our neutrality has to be “redefined”. Part of that “redefining” is an ever-closer partnership with nuclear-armed Nato through the Partnership for Peace (PfP).