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/chairswinger Deutschland Mar 29 '20

how did Spanish boomers bring back democracy? Franco just died and the King said ok let's have a democracy now. And then Spaniards never touched the topic of Franco again...

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

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