The leader of rebellious France Jean-Luc Mélenchon castigated Monday, during a trip to Creuse, the creation of “a European defense commission to wage war” and called for “negotiating” peace in Ukraine.
“Without being asked for anything, the European Commissioner, Mrs. von der Leyen, has decided to appoint a European Defense Commissioner,” lamented the Insoumis leader during a speech in front of the small town’s war memorial. of Gentioux-Pigerolles (Creuse), one of the few of pacifist inspiration in the country, with its mention “Cursed be war”.
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “it is a European defense commission for waging war”.
“And this is how we moved from the Europe of peace to the Europe of defense, and now to the Europe of war. No national parliament has ever decided to create such a police station,” castigated the Insoumis tribune, on the occasion of the 106th anniversary of the armistice of the First World War.
“I don't know how to launch this alert, and that's why I asked your permission to come and do it here, in front of this monument, to remind you that behind the big sentences, at the end, that's it, and only that, death, death, more death,” he told the 300 people who came to listen to him.
Last week, the new European Defense Commissioner Andrius Kubilios estimated, before MEPs, that the EU must spend more on its security due to the Russian threat, while many countries are questioning the persistence of support American military to Ukraine after the election of Donald Trump.
Warning against “a system that needs the war economy to revive itself”, Mr. Mélenchon also called for peace negotiations in Ukraine.
“At an uncertain moment in the war (…) due to the unacceptable invasion”, “the time for diplomacy and peace has come”, he said.
“It is now that we must negotiate before some hazard of the movements of the front comes, this one or the other, to decide to take measures which they would consider irreversible to further extend the war”, called the tribune rebellious, before concluding “cursed be the system which carries war within it, as the cloud carries the storm, as Jaurès said”.
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