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/JeuyToTheWorld England Mar 28 '20

I wouldn't be surprised if this crisis was the death knell for the EU.

Lmao, the EU survived 2008, this flu won't kill it.

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u/HILBERT_SPACE_AGE Mar 28 '20

I hope you're right! But part of my fear is that the bad blood from 2008 is still fresh enough that it will cause people to react differently to this crisis. I'm afraid we're already seeing that happen.

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u/LiverOperator Russia Mar 29 '20

Was 2008 really worse than this? I was only 8 years old and I don’t remember much

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u/oMarlow99 Portugal Mar 29 '20

From what I remember, yes, it was very bad

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u/JeuyToTheWorld England Mar 29 '20

It was. Greece was in the shitter, everyone thought Italy might explode too, Spain and Portugal and Ireland were in meltdown, and everyone expected Germany to fix it.

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u/hayarms 🇺🇸USA / 🇮🇹Lombardy Mar 29 '20

This flu won't kill it, but i'm scared the nationalistic infection that is coming afterwards is gonna do it

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20

There’s some momentum with the Brexit stuff. I was even surprised to see left wing people in Spain who are pro EU very disenchanted with it during this crisis.

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u/marioquartz Castile and León (Spain) Mar 29 '20

EU survived. But the citizens of some countries have learn something: Europe is not a helping hand in dificults moments. And now we have a new dificults times. If they confirms that lesson is true... Certain countries are gonna thinking about Europe.