André Crespin

Political advisor @Left_EU
AFET - SEDE

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

$118 milliards par an, presque $4000 par seconde, aux armes nucléaires en 2025. Un record terrifiant. Comme une promesse d'annihilation.

Sans surprise, les USA dépensent le plus, de très loin.

Mobilisons-nous contre cette folie ce 14 juin à Bruxelles.

https://t.co/SUSjcyA2m9

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

Europe does not need an arms race. It needs investment in people, public services, social justice, and peace. Welfare, not Warfare.

The @europeanleft calls to join the march organized by the StopReArm Campaign and the Stop Militarization Platform.

https://t.co/hRBiFGObnp

[Peter Mertens MP @peter_mertens]

We have closely followed the process of the presidential elections in Colombia, which culminated in @IvanCepedaCast and Aída Quilcué advancing to the second round with an impressive result of nearly 41% of the vote.

On behalf of PVDA-PTB, the Workers’ Party of Belgium, we extend our solidarity to the democratic, popular, and progressive forces of Colombia, united within and around the @PactoCol. We recognize and value the broad coalition that has emerged from the Colombian people's longstanding struggle for peace, sovereignty, social justice, and democracy.

We reaffirm the right of the Colombian people to determine their own future freely and democratically, without intimidation, coercion, or foreign interference. They can count on our solidarity in their efforts to ensure that the popular will is respected and safeguarded against any attempt at manipulation, disinformation, and other dirty tricks, including those coming from the US Trump Administration and his followers in Latin America.

Together with many progressive and democratic forces around the world, we support the path of peace, sovereignty, social rights, and peoples’ rights that the Colombian workers, peasants, intellectuals, artists, youth and students, indigenous peoples and other popular sectors have opened. We support your efforts to further broaden popular mobilization through a strong, enthusiastic, and hopeful campaign.

[The Left in the European Parliament @Left_EU]

Real translation:

✅Child detention and deportation
✅Fundamental rights violations
✅ICE-style police powers

And after years of claiming to oppose the far right, the EPP is now delivering parts of the racist agenda the AfD has been demanding.

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

'Iran must,' but apparently the US must not.

When you have zero influence on the outcome, but still want to flag submission to Washington.

We need a Europe that says: the US must end its illegal acts of aggression.

[Paco Arnau @ciudadfutura]

En Bolivia hay una genuina movilización popular de mineros, obreros y campesinos. Si fuera una “primavera” orquestada por EEUU o la UE abriría todos los telediarios. Es la prueba del algodón.

[Ghida Fakhry @ghida_fakhry]

“‘What are you partnering with?’”

MEP @BotengaM accuses EU leaders of “active complicity” in funding and arming Israel while it commits “the worst crimes possible under international law.”

Marc Botenga tells me about the “deep embeddedness” of Israel’s broader project of colonization in the European system — and why the EU could exert massive pressure by suspending its preferential trade agreement, but refuses to act.

Watch the full interview: https://t.co/8Ea60c8Igw

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

Europe's militarisation drive will guarantee neither peace and security nor economic prosperity. Alternatives exist, but Europe needs to change.

Watch the full version of my @euronews The Ring debate opposing Lukas Mandl (EPP) ⤵️

https://t.co/rbaQu9Szup

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

Les images de Ben Gvir jubilant devant l'humiliation des activistes de la Flottille sont la façade d'un système criminel: détentions arbitraires, torture systématique, viols banalisés. L'enfer quotidien de milliers de prisonniers palestiniens, loin des caméras. #SanctionIsrael

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

Those in the European Parliament who are the first to give lectures on democracy just uncritically applauded a delegation from the UAE that has neither real elections, nor a legislative parliament, and is accused of sponsoring the worst war crimes. Shocking double standards ⤵️

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

Caméras israéliennes dans nos villes, logiciels espions utilisés contre des journalistes européens (Pegasus, Graphite), soupçons d'ingérence dans les élections françaises (BlackCore), et porte ouverte à la clique milliardaire de Palantir dans nos services … Changeons de modèle.

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

« Il ne restera plus rien de l'Iran. »

Trump ose répéter ses menaces barbares parce que l'UE choisit la complicité. Parce qu'aucun dirigeant européen ne le recadre. Parce que nos bases militaires garantissent la logistique de l'armée US.

Ça suffit.

https://t.co/vgTiljYUWA

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

Sous pression, l'UE sanctionne des organisations de colons, mais pas l'État israélien qui les soutient.

Cibler les parties pour protéger la machine, ce n'est pas justice, mais un écran de fumée.

Et en passant, l'Europe légitime ainsi de fait ce qu'Israël fait à Gaza, au Liban.

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

Iran: US bombers, drones, and warships are continuously resupplied, rearmed, directed from posts in Europe. Europeans are thus fully complicit. Without European facilities, the entire American air bridge to the Gulf region would grind to a halt, says @peter_mertens ⤵️

[André Crespin @CrespinAndre]

@Left_EU But for weapons and tanks, there is always plenty of money.

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

Les nouvelles menaces américaines de taxes à 25 % sur le secteur automobile montrent que le deal avec Trump n'évite pas la guerre commerciale. Arrêtons de courir derrière les USA. Développons une politique de l'énergie publique pour l'industrie en Europe.

https://t.co/4YtRTac3KF

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

L'hypocrisie de l'Eurovision ⤵️

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

L'assaut des US contre l'industrie européenne continue.

Trump veut hausser les tarifs douaniers sur l'automobile européen. Après l'acier. Après l'aluminium.

Nouvelle gifle. Von der Leyen avait pourtant négocié. Amadoué. Cédé.

La servilité vàv de l'impérialisme US ne paie pas.

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

🚨 La flottille internationale Global Sumud attaquée par les forces israéliennes dans des eaux internationales, près de Crète, à plus de 1000km de Gaza.

Un acte illégal. De la piraterie pure.

Israël va toujours plus loin. L'UE et ses États membres doivent agir sans délai.

[Marc Botenga MEP @BotengaM]

The United States is set to cut off funding for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis treatment in Zambia unless the country agrees to give the U.S. its minerals.

Europe's main 'ally' is a gangster.