Consensus largely dominates when the EU Parliament debates the Russian deportations and the arrest warrant against President Vladimir Putin.
Some on site can even refer concretely to how history repeats itself. Putin’s representatives in Moscow have acted in a similar way before.
— My mother was nine years old when Stalin’s communists deported her and her family to Siberia, just because they were teachers. Only half the family came back. She could never have imagined that the deportations would return to Europe again, says Lithuanian member of parliament and former defense minister Rasa Jukneviciene.
The consensus is also noticeable when both EU Minister Jessika Roswall (M) and Swedish Member of Parliament Heléne Fritzon (S) bring up the same deported Ukrainian twelve-year-old in their respective posts:
— They said that no one needed me, the boy is quoted by both Roswall and Fritzon.
— Putin will stop at nothing when it comes to destroying Ukraine as a nation. The EU must stand united and examine all means to bring these children home: home to Ukraine, home to Europe, says David Lega (KD) in turn in the debate.