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On Saturday at half past five in the evening, hundreds of people gathered on Wenceslas Square in Prague to support the European Union. According to them, Europe is the only solution to the current crises. They also pointed to the need to support Ukraine and condemned Putin. The event was organized by the Volt movement and the Pulse of Europe association. The gathering was peaceful, watched by dozens of police officers.
Demonstrators support the adoption of the euro and the need to reform the EU
People gathered in the lower part of the square. At the head of the rally, the organizers placed a cartoon statue of Vladimir Putin in a toilet, several people stood around with banners condemning Russian aggression or with Ukrainian flags.
The participants also had a large tarp with the European Union flag, held around the perimeter by about 25 people, and various banners. In addition to Ukraine, these also concern, for example, support for the adoption of the euro, climate change, human rights, but also the need to reform the European Union.
Thousands of protesters who disagree with the government’s solution to the crisis filled Wenceslas Square at noon on Saturday. The event called Against Poverty was organized by the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions (ČMKOS). Trade unionists demand, for example, price regulation…
German MEP Boeselager is participating in the event
The crowd then marched through Old Town Square and Charles Bridge to Malostranské náměstí, where, for example, MEP Damian Boeselager, who in 2019 was the first to be elected to the European Parliament for Volt, will perform. The podium will also welcome Volt Europa president Francesca Romana D’Antuono, activists from the Pulse of Europe association or a Volt Czech representative.
The organizer of the event is the political movement Volt, which operates at the pan-European level and consists of local political parties. He wants to solve European problems on a transnational level, and at the same time sets himself against populists and nationalists.