About a thousand people have concentrated this Sunday in Madrid’s Plaza de Callao to claim European values and the EU before the “reactionary wave” of the “fear and lies” they have asked to face with courage and courage.
According to data from the Government Delegation in Madrid, about a thousand people have filled the Plaza de Callao to defend and claim “The biggest project of humanity in political terms, unity, cohesion, human rights and concord”as the journalist has stressed Juan Fernández-Mirandawho recalled that the day to day of Spain “is conditioned” of what the twenty -seven states in Brussels decide.
The concentration took place the same week as on Europe, on May 9, with the aim of attracting attention to the continent “It has never been as at risk in recent eighty years as today” and that the “response to that threat is the European Union.”
To the act conducted by the journalist Mara Torres and organized by a group of people linked to the Academy, Culture and Communication and Youth Associations such as European Federalist Team or Young Federalists, politicians have attended such as the Minister of Digital Transformation, Óscar López; PSOE spokeswoman at the Madrid City Council, Reyes Maroto; or the coordinator of adding Carlos Martín.
Speaking to the press, López has pointed out that the EU is “the best political project in the whole world” that has meant “the consolidation of democracy” and the social state of law and social justice “and that today is” threatened by an ultra wave “for what it has to defend it.
Carlos Martín has expressed in that same line, who has defended that The Spaniards are “very Europeanist” And it has demanded more to Europe with, for example, a reduction in working hours that makes it “more compatible with a more reasonable life”, or achieving more independence or more strategic autonomy in key sectors such as banking, energy or digitalization.
Under the motto In defense of Europe and democracyin the event journalists have intervened such as Andrea Rizzi o CARLOS FRAGANILLOwho have valued the contribution of the EU, or the writer Elvira Cute that he has asked that fear does not paralyze European citizenship and recalled that the EU must be a place to find “a more surrounded and better life.”
The exeurodiputada María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop has acknowledged that the EU has not been able to live up to it, but has assured that “we have not yet collided with any iceberg” and that “nothing is written” but that the Europeans are those who write their future.
The activist Paula Jiménez has noted that “the cause of Ukraine is that of Europe and the cause of Europe must be Ukraine” and has warned that the “the era of naivety has ended” and Europe must have an autonomous security model.
Esther LynchGeneral Secretary of the European Confederation of Unions (CES), stressed that Europe is under “threat” and has made it clear that neither hate nor fear “have a place in the future we are building.”
Accompanied by the general secretaries of UGT and CCOO, Pepe Álvarez and Unai Sordohas requested a model based on quality jobs, strong public services, where each one loves, and in which there is greater cooperation between nations and people.
The act has been closed by the singer Miguel Ríoswho has interpreted, together with the pianist Rosa Torres-Pardo, the anthem of the joy he has toned together with the protesters, as well as a musical poem by Luis García Montero against the Iraq war. “We are nothing, without Europe we are nothing”Ríos has risted, who has underlined the values of freedom and joy as EU flags.
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