A few meters from the Madrid street of Preciados, where one of the iconic images of the Spanish transition was taken in 1976, that of a child on his father’s shoulders in a demonstration to demand greater quality in education and protest against the lifelong of life, another small one, also on his shoulders, waved this Sunday a flag of the European Union in the concentration that has taken place in the Plaza de Callao to defend the project of social democracy of the social democracy of the social democracy. to external threats (Donald Trump and his commercial war; Vladimir Putin and the Ukraine War) and internal (the rise of the extreme right).
The correspondent of Global Affairs of El País, Andrea Rizzi, has caused the first applause with a speech about the challenges faced by the European Union and the tools that it has to face them: the citizens themselves, 450 million Europeans united in a common project of rights and freedoms, rule of law and well -being, threatened “by tanks, bulls and tariffs”. “Subestimating threats would be a very serious mistake,” said the journalist. “We Europeans suffer a conventional war on the eastern flank. And we do not confuse ourselves: submitting to Ukraine is not the only objective of Putin. We suffer a commercial war from the West. And let’s have it clear, it is the end of an era. And we suffer a cognitive war, freed from outside and from within. Malintemployed agents take advantage of new technologies to subvert our democracies with the disinformation. and paralyze ourselves. Identified the open fronts, Rizzi called citizens not to abandon themselves “in resignation, nihilism, defeatism.” “Let’s not let ourselves be dragged by disappointment and errors of European cooperation. It was the austerity imposed three years ago. It is the inaction before the massacre of Palestinian civilians by Israel in response to a terrorist act. But for many who have been the mistakes made, salvation is not to leave the European project, but to reinforce it. Division, hatred and lies, ”he concluded.
The writer Elvira Lindo, columnist of this newspaper, delved into what are the best methods to deal with internal and external threats that try to oppress European social democracy. “The nihilista manages emotions that inflate the feelings of hatred. We are going to dust off everything that moves us and that makes us better people,” he claimed from the stage. “Faced with the ugliness of cynicism, the beauty of justice; in the face of those who question the sincerity of our values, the defense not complexed with what we believe in; in the face of those who intend to snatch acquired rights, our unanimous decision not to give in. In front of those who point to guilty to justify their authoritarian des And without rest the truth. ”
The journalist of The confidential Juan Fernández Miranda recalled during his speech that Europe is not an abstract entity, but the promoter of 72% of the legislative projects approved by the Congress of Deputies and that condition the day -to -day life of the Spaniards and explained the importance of “maintaining Europe as a moral reference of humanity.” “Today democracy does not defend itself. The threats are great and each of us must commit to explain to those who do not understand it,” he added.
