André Glucksmann criticizes the EU's attitude

The French philosopher André Glucksmann is aggravated by what he considers a lack of reaction from European capitals to the repression of demonstrations against Vladimir Putin organised on April 14th, 2007. "Paris, Rome, London and Berlin are looking away and doing sums: Putin, his petrol, his gas, his weapons of mass destruction and those he sells all over the planet bear more weight than a few thousand demonstrators beat-up, dispelled and arrested by ten-fold repressive forces. ... It is time for the EU to proclaim that the passion for freedom has been fundamental part of the European spirit ever since Greek antiquity. This passion presided over its creation. It is the driving idea that led the anti-totalitarian revolts of Berlin (1953), the Polish uprising (1956), the Budapest insurrection (1956) and what followed in Prague and Warsaw, right up to the fall of the Berlin wall."

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