Aid to Ukraine, European agricultural policy, driving license… Raphaël Glucksmann’s “8h30 franceinfo”

The MEP and head of the PS/Place Publique list in the European elections was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Monday February 26, 2024.

Raphaël Glucksmann, MEP and head of the PS/Place Publique list in the European elections, was the guest of “8h30 franceinfo”, Monday February 26, 2024. War in Ukraine, agricultural policy of the European Union, the upcoming elections, permits to drive… He answered questions from Jérôme Chapuis and Salhia Brakhlia.

“Acts” to help Ukraine

The Ukrainians have “need for weapons, ammunition, aviation, artillery”, affirms Raphaël Glucksmann. The MEP calls for “acts” to come to the aid of Ukraine, while France is organizing a support meeting in kyiv on Monday at the Élysée, with around twenty heads of state and government.

Raphaël Glucksmann also calls for more “serious” on sanctions against Russia.

“They need us to seize the 200 billion Russian state assets that are in our banks and are just frozen to this day.”

Raphaël Glucksmann

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“This meeting must be an opportunity for immense awareness”he adds. “Let us stop procrastinating, stop hesitating”pleads the essayist.

Agriculture: “the far right voted for the common agricultural policy”

“Since the start of the agricultural crisis, there has been a kidnapping of the anger of farmers by political representatives who voted for the texts which reinforce the crisis in the agricultural world” , denounces Raphaël Glucksmann. The head of the Socialist Party/Public Square list in the next European elections targets in particular the National Rally (RN). “The far right supported the common agricultural policy (CAP), it voted for the common agricultural policy with the representatives of Emmanuel Macron and the right”he says.

🔴 “The far right voted for the Common Agricultural Policy” in the European Parliament “with the representatives of Emmanuel Macron and the right,” denounces Raphaël Glucksmann. “I voted against all free trade agreements on this agricultural issue.” #8h30franceinfo pic.twitter.com/XFqCtlGFG8

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“We, with my socialist and Place Publique colleagues, fought against the common agricultural policy because it is fundamentally unfair, because it does not respond to the social crisis in agriculture”assures the elected official, who went to the Agricultural Show on Sunday.

Driving license: a regular medical examination “seems basic”

A medical examination every 15 years to maintain your driving license, “this seems basic to me”, underlines Raphaël Glucksmann. The European Parliament will vote on Wednesday February 28 on the generalization of a regular medical examination to maintain your driving license.

“There are accidents which are perfectly avoidable and which destroy lives”recalls Raphaël Glucksmann. “Every 15 years having a medical examination to see if we are still fit to drive or not, this does not seem to me to be devastating for the lives of citizens”he believes.

“We are the opposite of disconnection“

“I have not spent my life in the circles of Parisian elites”, defends Raphaël Glucksmann. The MEP thus responds to those who criticize him, on the left, like the deputy La France insoumise François Ruffin, who accuses him among other things of being the representative “of an elite that advances, with arrogance and unconsciousness”.

“We are going to show that we are the opposite of disconnection”, assures the MEP about the list he will lead to the European elections on June 9. “I don’t want to campaign simply in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, I’m going to go to the factories, I’m going to go to the farms, even if it means getting yelled at like the rest of the left on the theme ‘you’ve let us down, you abandoned us'”he adds.

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