“The urgency is to welcome these refugees”, pleads Yannick Jadot

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“Our motto is not: racism, anti-Semitism and revisionism, it is freedom, equality, fraternity”, recalls the EELV presidential candidate.

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“The urgency is to welcome these refugees who are dying in forests in abominable conditions”MEP EELV and presidential candidate Yannick Jadot reacted on France Inter on Monday, November 15, while thousands of migrants find themselves trapped on the border between Poland and Belarus. Westerners accuse Alexander Lukashenko’s regime of deliberately orchestrating this migratory crisis.

Yannick Jadot declares himself “appalled by the level of debate we have in our country today on migrants”. In particular, he is opposed to the construction of walls at the external borders: “You realize that there are 4,000 people who are not threatening anyone, our security is not in question, we are not going to be invaded and we are leaving them to die in a forest by putting up walls”.

He recalls that five years ago, “everyone was appalled by Trump’s speech on the wall between the United States and Mexico. Today, it’s European leaders who carry the same speech”, he laments. Charles Michel, the President of the Council of the EU, said last Wednesday that he was “legally possible” that the European Union finances such infrastructures. The European Commission has indicated that it is not in favor of this measure.

“Frankly, Charles Michel who was supposed to be a liberal who today is totally ‘orbanized’. We have a political debate that is ‘orbanized'”, continues the presidential candidate, referring to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “Are we going to come out of this madness at some point?”, he asks himself. “I listened to the Republicans debate” Sunday night. “There isn’t even one who dares to say that the ‘great replacement’ is ideological folly, that it is an aberration in the face of a frightful level of political collapse.” “Our motto is still not: racism, anti-Semitism and revisionism, it is freedom, equality, fraternity. Liberty, equality, fraternity, it is not a dead language”, he concludes.


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