24
Apr
2024
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Forging a sustainable future together: economic, social and territorial challenges for a competitive, cohesive and inclusive Europe (debate)
Mr President, the historical mission of the EU is to accomplish the unity and peace of European peoples without one ruling over others, because we had unity and even some peace before in the form of empires, and we had some self-government in the form of this unity and war. It is our responsibility to make sure that both unity and diversity, both peace and liberty, prevail (the speaker used an unofficial language), as we say in Catalan. You may be tired to hear of the Catalans’ demands, but we are the touchstone of this project. Either Europe protects the right of Catalans to be free and stops Spain from erasing us, or else this Parliament and this Commission are simply a new make-up for the old-time quarrel of dominion, subjugation and uniformity.