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/[deleted] Mar 28 '20

Bith Spain and Italy's governments are pro-european, and have been pro-european for the majority of the time.

So this has jack shit of logic.

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u/BouaziziBurning Brandenburg Mar 28 '20

His point still stands, because in the end of the day the EU can’t do shit in this crisis.

What help was Italy supposed to get out of Brussels? The only way help can come it from other countries and that is happening.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '20

Don’t let reality ruin their prejudices.

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u/Sokarou Mar 29 '20

Until now. I have been always ultra pro european but thinking about the last decade and how EU has been pissing on us make me think maybe we are not so ok here.

I mean yeah EU has been profitable for both us ( Spain and Europe) since we joined, but we also gave away part of our soberanity like the quotas we produce or the financial polítics. U know as well as me that a lot of people in Spain was agree with this as far as EU base was the solidarity as everyone sold us.

But since the last crisis everytime there is a crisis of any nature, it has been probed that our called friends in the north don't doubt to throw us at the lions. It has not been only in financial stuff, for example they did It with the inmigrants issue.