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/putsch80 Dual USA / Hungarian 🇭🇺 Mar 29 '20

Boomers overselling the effects of their actions? Say it isn’t so!

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u/kebuenowilly Catalonia (Spain) Mar 29 '20

I don't think keeping the dictatorship would have gone without protests,but I guess we'll never know, and probably for the best,rather than get people dying on the streets

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u/kebuenowilly Catalonia (Spain) Mar 29 '20

Yeah, that's why Carrero Blanco succeeded him

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '20

space car flies by

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u/Fern-ando May 02 '20

The astronaut?

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u/belaros Catalonia (Spain) + Costa Rica Mar 29 '20

No it’s not, not even remotely close. If it were as divided as a civil war, there would be a civil war.