SYRIZA MEP
Stelios Kouloglou, French MEP with the Socialists Edouard Martin and
Florent Marcellesi, representative of the Spanish Greens EQUO in the
euro-parliament who recently participated in the Spanish elections
with Podemos and the Leftist coalition, discussed about the Brexit
consequences. They also talked about the political climate that has
been shaped in Europe and the situation in Greece, Spain, France and
Portugal. The discussion was held for the tv channel of the French
newspaper Humanite.
As Kouloglou
characteristically pointed:
It is now
clear the EU is not attractive as it was in the past. The social
status and conquered values after WWII that made the EU attractive
are being threatened and restricted in many countries. We see this in
France with the labor bill. Also, Democracy is not functioning. We
saw this too with Greeks who voted two, three times to change the
policies, respecting the rules.
What can
be done now? I think it is clear that, for other European countries
and especially for France, for the French government and for Mr.
Hollande, Brexit is the last chance to change the political framework
so that the political campaign for the presidential elections to
start in a different basis.
However,
I'm disappointed and surprised by the reactions because I think that
no one in the euro parliament wants to realize what happened. It's
like the Titanic that goes straight to the iceberg at the time when
captain Schäuble and his team are dancing on the bridge.
I
expected that the day after Brexit vote would be a serious warning
for Europe, in order to change policies. But like I said, I'm really
disappointed. I don't see any way out. I see the ship going straight
to the rocks. Maybe we need a shipwreck, I don't know. So that people
might wake up, change leadership, change policies.
We want
of course to proceed in coalitions, to have connections with the
progressive forces, with the Socialists and the traditional Left,
with the new Left of Podemos, in order to change the current
situation.
Kouloglou's
comments show the desperation and inability of the Left to change the
catastrophic course of Europe. But also the European people exhibit a
hesitation to get rid of the corrupted political establishment
expressed mainly through the Social Democrats and the Popular Right,
while many of them are turning to the Far-Right and the Nationalists.
Maybe
Europe indeed needs a shock to wake up Europeans who will realize
that the current political establishment is leading the continent
straight to the neo-Feudal era. Current neoliberal Europe needs to be
dissolved and rebuilt through a more determined Left who will serve
the majority of the European citizens, not the bankers and the
lobbyists.
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