'EU Sells Itself for 5%’: Melenchon Explodes at Macron, Brussels and Trump in Fiery Rally | APT - video Dailymotion

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Jean-Luc Melenchon unleashed a blistering attack on President Emmanuel Macron, the EU leadership, and Washington during a packed rally in Saint-Pierre-des-Corps. The France Unbowed leader denounced rising poverty, mass evictions, and the EU’s pledge to spend “5% of the continent’s wealth on American weapons,” urging Brussels to invest “680 billion” in Europe instead of the United States. He also criticised the ongoing bombing in Gaza and Lebanon, expressed solidarity with peacekeepers, and called for climate measures including a ban on cotton jeans. The event — filled with fiery speeches from Melenchon and LFI figures — further fuels speculation of a 2027 pre-campaign push. #EU #france #US #apt

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00:00So, we at France Insoumise are still fighting for peace here and elsewhere.

00:07Peace between peoples, peace between individuals,

00:10mutual acceptance of all human beings in their differences and their particularities.

00:16We at France Insoumise are fighting for freedom.

00:19We at France Insoumise are fighting for equality.

00:22And we at France Insoumise are working day and night to breathe new life into this fraternity

00:27that is so necessary to our civilization.

00:30And I would like to read you an article from our Constitution that I think is important to recall today.

00:46Article 1. France is an indivisible, secular, democratic and social republic.

00:53It is based on equality before the law for all citizens without distinction of origin, race or religion.

01:00And respect, it respects, sorry, all beliefs.

01:05In 1958, we wrote that in barely three years later, dozens of Algerians were being thrown onto the scene.

01:13Killing so many people that today history cannot agree on the number of victims.

01:17The fifth republic is a moribund liar.

01:29It is up to us to put an end to it and create a sixth.

01:31And I think that given the level of the fifth, we can only do better.

01:45Let us make a sixth emerge from the ashes, which this time will truly have as its foundation the acceptance of others,

01:51respect for diversity, and living together because we are all brothers and sisters of the same species.

01:55I will do as I have done every time.

02:01I will speak on your behalf to express our love, our solidarity, and our brotherhood with the unfortunate Palestinians

02:07who continue to be bombed day and night despite a ceasefire that was supposed to protect them.

02:11I would like to add a thought and a threat that, this time, is aimed at the most immoral army in the world,

02:27which just yesterday bombed positions in the autonomous and independent free state of Lebanon,

02:31and is today accused by the UN peacekeepers of having fired on them,

02:35even though, as you know, their orders forbid them from responding,

02:38since we have 700 of our compatriots in uniform and wearing UN peacekeepers.

02:49I want to say that all of us here at this time want to show our complete solidarity with them

02:54in the clearest possible way by thanking them for the work they are trying to do

02:57at the risk of their lives and in conditions that are considered a foregone conclusion.

03:01Poverty means that every French person who does not receive treatment is going to suffer.

03:10It means 200,000 power cuts in 2024, 900,000 reductions in 2025.

03:18It means insecurity for 25,000 people who have been evicted from their homes.

03:23And we heard a macronist minister say with a proud air as if he had accomplished a feat.

03:28Yes, that's true.

03:31More people are being expelled.

03:33And he said, I take responsibility.

03:36Well, we curse you for what you've done.

03:39We have to do things differently.

03:41If we are environmentalists, we can no longer accept cotton jeans.

03:48And so we should hit them at the border with Trumpist customs duties.

03:52In order to reap the benefits that Mr. Trump intends to derive from them.

04:01But the simplest thing would be to simply ban them, just as we banned products containing

04:05glyphosate or neonicotinoids.

04:08In short, all the things we no longer want in our country because they make everyone sick.

04:12Well, can we do it?

04:15Yes, we can do it.

04:16We have to make jeans out of linen.

04:19Linen doesn't require as much water as cotton.

04:22And it's possible to plant linen instead of other things that are of no use, or at least

04:27not directly to us.

04:28You always wake up after the battle.

04:31Haven't you seen Mr. Trump?

04:33He himself interrupted solely.

04:35He decided to impose customs duties everywhere and he hopes that this way American industry

04:40will miraculously resurface from nowhere.

04:44And he came across this Mrs. Vlenlein, who no one had asked for anything, who had already

04:49given up 5% of the continent's wealth to buy American weapons.

04:53And the same lady said to him, oh, no problem, we love you, so we're going to invest 680 billion

04:59in you.

04:59But my poor lady, if you have 680 billion, put it in Europe.

05:03That's where we need investment.

05:05It's not in the United States of America.

05:09And now that you remind me of it, Mrs. Vlenlein, explain to me where you're going to take the

05:14680 billion in question because it's not written anywhere in the European Constitution.

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