Hier zeggen de Europese volksvertegenwoordigers nee, zoals Cervantes in Lepanto, Lord Byron in Missolonghi, de Griekse kinderen uit de Catacomben die doodsbang hun geloof beleden, schilderijen en gedichten, van respectievelijk Delacroix en Victor Hugo, over het rijk van massamoorden en ontvoeringen, en de gemartelden van “Midnight Express”.
In this House, the representatives of the people of Europe’s nations are repeating the ‘no’ uttered by Cervantes at Lepanto, by Lord Byron at Missolonghi, by the Greek children of the Catacombs who used to practice their religion in fear, by the paintings and poems of, respectively, Delacroix and Victor Hugo on the empire of massacres and kidnappings, and by the martyrs of ‘Midnight Express’.Europarl8 Europarl8