ABOUT Vladimir Putin he wants to destroy the European way of life, said the head of the European People’s Party (EPP) parliamentary group Manfred Weber, speaking at the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, calling the Russian president a “war criminal”. “.

“For us, as for the EPP, it was clear from the very beginning: we support our Ukrainian friends who seek, experience and defend the European way of life. Putin wants to destroy him. It’s the other way around. She hates him. His dictatorship supports repression, censorship, war crimes, totalitarianism. Putin is a war criminal and must lose this war,” Mr. Weber said. At the same time, he emphasized that this war shook Europe to its foundations, but it proved to be stronger and more united than ever. He also referred to Ukrainian President Zelensky, who was at the European Parliament in Brussels last week.

“President Zelensky, his army and more than 40 million compatriots are united. They show us what it means to follow the European way of life. Our Ukrainian friends show us every day what it means to be European. They show us that, given a choice, people choose democracy over despotism, the rule of law over minority rule, and the freedom of tyranny. And this is called the European way of life,” said the head of the EPP CO.

He added that Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke about “the European way of life” about 20 times in his speech, while, as Mr. Weber said, the socialists and the Greens were against the Commission’s portfolio to promote and protect the European way of life. “As the EPP, we fought for this, and today this (…) is probably the motivation of our Ukrainian friends,” Manfred Weber emphasized.

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