Greta Thunberg: The European Parliament skips its coronavirus restrictions to allow entry

The populist agenda is ahead of the coronavirus prevention measures in the European Parliament. It has been demonstrated this Wednesday, when the institution chaired by David Sassoli has bypassed its own restrictions to allow the entry of activist Greta Thunberg. The European Parliament published its letter of security measures and restrictions in the middle of the crisis due to the coronavirus this week. . These were made explicit in an official communication, and they specified that “no visitor will be allowed access to Parliament.” That ‘no visitor’ has had an illustrious exception this Wednesday. Up to 130 events have been canceled in Parliament, but the visit of 17-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is, it has been proven, above those security restrictions. For the standard-bearer of the now called ‘climate emergency’ to address the MEPs, the European institution did not hesitate to make a resounding exception to its own measures. Moreover, David Sassoli himself received the young Thunberg, thus publicizing his speech in the European Parliament. Several MEPs have denounced this exception. Among them, José Ramón Bauzá, from Ciudadnos, who publicly asked himself “why has Greta Thunberg been allowed access when there is an express ban on entry to anyone who is not permanent Parliament staff? Why have we had to cancel our entire visit schedule by order of the president but she is allowed in? ”And what was so important in Thunberg’s intervention so that Parliament failed to comply with its own measure? Well, listen to the activist qualify as “surrender” the draft of the climate law proposed by the European Commission.The activist recalled that the European Parliament agreed to declare a ‘climate emergency’ a few months ago, and now demands that “it be shown that it was serious”, while accusing politicians of “pretending” their interest in “the biggest crisis at that humanity has faced ». Thus passed the intervention of Greta Thunberg in Brussels, the only visitor with permission to enter the Europarliament in the midst of the crisis due to the coronavirus.