Category: VERBATIM

A new page turns for Iran

Madam President, there will never be “normalisation” in Iran. A return to the status quo ante is now impossible because the protests have become too widespread and the repression too harsh for the regime to take things back under its control.

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Dusk is falling on a faltering tsar

Speech at the plenary session in the debate on Russia’s escalating war of aggression against Ukraine

Ladies and gentlemen, the question today is where we stand.

On the Ukrainian side, the counter-offensive has been a tremendous success, since after the advances in the east, the troops of liberation are now moving towards Kherson.

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Remember, and you will see that your end is approaching

Speech at the plenary session in the debate on the death of Mahsa Amini and the repression of women’s rights protesters in Iran

Mister President, five hundred, eight hundred, three thousand deaths or more: we know, unfortunately, that you, the Pasdaran and the other basijis will not count them in order to keep your power. The Supreme Guide, your leader, has encouraged you to do so. This popular revolt, this revolt of women defending women and freedom can probably be crushed by your weapons and your cynicism. But watch out! Beware you profiteers and defenders of this regime!

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Germany must intensify its efforts to help Ukraine win the war

On 24 February, as the tanks rolled over the Russo-Ukrainian border and missiles rained through the night sky, Putin declared his war of aggression against Ukraine. The days of appeasement are over, the veil was lifted. Putin came to conquer – not only Ukraine, but more broadly, also Europe. Putin has dragged the Western world into a systemic conflict between democracy and dictatorship, freedom and oppression, rule of law or rule by force.

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Foreword

Dear Readers,

welcome to this site.

It is not simply the webpage of the Member of the European Parliament, who I have become with great apprehension. Not of the journalist either, who I have been for half a century.

It is a wild ambition: I wanted to give a report on my work as an elected representative in Brussels and in Strasbourg, to continue to follow the evolution of world politics and to try to describe and decipher the stakes and the mysteries behind the scenes of the European institutions.

I wanted to create a multilingual site, to step across the borders that sometimes still separate us.

“Smithing makes the smith”, I hope you will bear with me.

Yours, 

Bernard Guetta

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