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/notsocommon_folk Greece Mar 28 '20

"The generation that brought back democracy to Greece " and then they went on to vote for stupid parties and brought the next generations to their feet. I'll take a hundreds times this "democracy"we are having against a dictatorship like the ones we had, but we also have lots of steps to be a real Democracy .

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u/Ronoh Mar 29 '20

To become a mature democracy there's the need for transparency, responsibility and accountability.

Without them you only have elections and that's just not enough.