Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-07-04-Speech-2-013"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-07-04"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:70 years after General Franco's coup d'état in Spain (Statements by the President and the political groups)2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060704.4.2-013"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-07-04-Speech-2-0142
lpv:speaker	lp:Francis Wurtz2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Conference of Presidents (2004-07-20--2006-12-12)3 member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2007-03-14)3 substitute; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 chair; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Parti communiste français (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the United States (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, Parliament is acting as it should by organising this political act to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of Franco’s unleashing of the Spanish Civil War. Indeed, the destruction of that young Republic is, in more than one respect, relevant to the whole of Europe. First of all, the forces of the 1936 Putsch only managed to overcome the Popular Front with the decisive assistance of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. It was, too, in Spain that the latter experimented with a view to its future against France, and Guernica was the first example in world history of the massacre of a civilian population by massive aerial bombardments which was to become a terrifying model for what took place throughout the Second World War. Those dark years, 1936 - 1939, demand the attention of Europe for yet another reason: the way in which the republicans were betrayed by neighbouring democracies. The non-intervention of 1936 paved the way for Munich in 1938, which led to continent-wide disaster from 1939. What, moreover, is to be said about the smug indifference of Western and European leaders in general to the Francoist regime after the war, as soon as its leader had joined the forces for good against the evil empire. In conclusion, there is one final reason why the Spanish tragedy has a European dimension: this is the unparalleled surge of international solidarity to which it gave rise among the workers and the common people, as well as among the most eminent European intellectuals; a solidarity strikingly illustrated by the International Brigades, composed of 40 000 volunteers from around fifty countries. Conversely, a number of Spanish republicans went on to be members of the French Resistance. Some of them would take part in the Paris insurrection of August 1944 under the leadership of my late lamented comrade Henri Rol-Tanguy. Others took part in the liberation of Strasbourg in November of the same year in the army of General Leclerc. Without doubt, the European consciousness would not be the same without the unspeakable suffering of the victims of Francoism, without the intrepid courage of those Spaniards who offered resistance and without the tide of solidarity on which the young Republic was borne. May today’s commemorative act on our part pay to all the women and men concerned the tribute that they deserve."@en1
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