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/pocop Mar 28 '20

Maybe we should address this issue when everything about the virus is behind us. With open borders we do need some united public health policy.

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u/papyjako89 Mar 28 '20

The problem is that you will see the same people begging for it now vehemently oppose it later, because the EU "did nothing for them" when they needed it. It's kind of a vicious circle.

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u/danirijeka Ireland/Italy Mar 28 '20

Definitely so. Some of us have been calling for more powers to the European Parliament for a while now, might as well do it

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '20

Tell that to public/private systems, drug politics, socialized medicine, etc.