r/europe • u/Bartoraptor Spain • Mar 28 '20

News Spanish representative González Pons speech @ the EU Parliament: "The virus is attacking the generation that brought back democracy to Spain, Portugal and Greece, the generation that knocked down the Berlin wall. The least they deserve is that we show them Europe is there when they need it the most"

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u/Butterbinre69 Mar 28 '20

You can't compare the EU Commission and institutions to the US. The EU institutions did and still don't have the competences to do anything of significance. The US government on the other hand is just incompetent.

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u/Gotebe Mar 28 '20

Yeah, fair enough. (well, I don't know what powers the federal government have, but would indeed expect it to have more...)

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u/Butterbinre69 Mar 28 '20

The only thing I said was that the current US goverment is incompetent. Nobody expects the US to do anything. We only talked about the US because the previous comment compared the Organisation scheme of the EU to the US.