The Marseillaise resounds in the hemicycle
(B2) An a capella from Marseilles sung by the President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, in the hemicyle of the Parliament in Brussels, alongside the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, Federica Mogherini, and the French Secretary of State for European Affairs, Harlem Désir. The moment was of a rare emotion that was not feigned...
« The Paris attacks were an attack on our freedom, an attack on our European values and our way of life, an attack on all of us. In pain, we Europeans stand alongside the French people “said Martin Schulz. The President of the European Parliament wanted to warn against a possible change of approach on the right of asylum for Syrians: “ We will not allow ourselves to be poisoned by the venom of these criminals (…) If we suspect all the refugees from Syria, then we are confusing victims and murderers, because the refugees are precisely seeking asylum in us from the barbarism of these assassins”.
