The leader of La France insoumise Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Monday, during a trip to the Creuse region of France, criticized the creation of of “a European defense commission to wage war”. and called for “negotiate” peace in Ukraine. “Without being asked, the European Commissioner, Mrs. von der Leyen, has decided to appoint a European Commissioner for Defense.”deplored the Insoumis leader during a speech in front of the war memorial in the small commune of Gentioux-Pigerolles (Creuse), one of the few pacifist-inspired memorials in the country. “Cursed be war.

For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, “it’s about a European defense commission to wage war”.. “And this is how we went from the Europe of peace to the Europe of defense, and now to the Europe of war. No national parliament has ever decided to create such a commissariat”.criticized the Insoumis, on the 106th anniversary of the armistice of the First World War.

“Death, death, more death”

“I don’t know how to issue this alert, and that’s why I asked your permission to come and do it here, in front of this monument, as a reminder that behind the great phrases, in the end, it’s this, and only this, death, death, more death.”he said to the 300 people who came to hear him. Last week, the new European Commissioner for Defense Andrius Kubilios told MEPs that the EU needed to spend more on its security because of the Russian threat, while many countries are questioning whether US military support for Ukraine will continue after the election of Donald Trump.

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Warning against “a system that needs the war economy to revive itself”Jean-Luc Mélenchon also called for peace negotiations in Ukraine. “At an uncertain moment in the war (…) due to the unacceptable invasion.”, “the time for diplomacy and peace has come”.he said.

“Now is the time to negotiate before some random movement on the front, this one or the other, decides to take steps they would think irreversible to extend the war further.”called the former leader of the Insoumis, before concluding “cursed be the system that carries war within it, like the cloud carries the storm, as Jaurès said”.