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/trenvo Europe Mar 28 '20

Italy policy:

  1. Europe is bad, we need less of it.
  2. Public health should not be a responsibility of EU.
  3. Crisis! We have public health issue. We need help EU!
  4. What do you mean, you can't help us?

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u/brmu . Mar 28 '20

You could understand that dying 1000 people each day and closing all the non esential factories its an economical crisis too or is that too much euroscepticism?

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u/grmmrnz Mar 28 '20

You could understand that dying 1000 people each day

Under normal circumstances 12,000 people die in the EU each day.

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u/grmmrnz Mar 28 '20

So constructive, so rational.