Finland's prime minister addressed on Wednesday the European Parliament and outlined his political priorities for the next legislature.
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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:03 My government is committed to a strong European Union,
00:19 an EU that acts, not only reacts.
00:23 We want to build a union that takes
00:25 care of our common security and works for our economy.
00:30 Upholding the rule of law in Europe
00:33 must remain our core principle.
00:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:38 [MUSIC PLAYING]
00:42 Are you proud of your finance minister
00:59 when she poses on social media with the large scissors,
01:03 expressing satisfaction at cutting people's income
01:08 and social security?
01:10 Do you feel comfortable caverning
01:13 with a minister who declared himself a Nazi?
01:18 And this person is still a minister?
01:21 Mr. Orpo, your alliance with the far right
01:25 is the real threat to our democracy
01:28 and to the European project.
01:30 This is why the future--
01:32 [APPLAUSE]
01:34 This is why the future of the European Union is at stake.
01:39 I disagree with Iratsegatia on a lot of things
01:41 and with the far left as well.
01:42 But at least we have a common base.
01:45 We have a common base, and that is that human dignity
01:49 is indivisible.
01:51 None of us says that some human beings are inferior
01:54 or implies this.
01:56 And this is why I believe that people like us should never,
01:59 never go into alliances with people who de facto consider
02:03 some human beings as inferior.
02:06 That's what you did in Finland.
02:07 [MUSIC PLAYING]
02:33 Madam Kassia Peräs, and for many others also,
02:40 there is no right wing, far right, far right parties
02:45 in my government.
02:47 Finnish government is pro rule of law.
02:51 It's pro democracy.
02:53 It's pro equal center rights.
02:56 It's pro Ukraine, pro European Union.
03:00 (upbeat music)