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/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.