Spanish → English transcript

Europe is based on the principles of multilateralism, therefore on shared decisions,

not unilateral ones, on international law, on peace, on respect for a peaceful

coexistence between nations and between societies.

And that is exactly what is now being called into question once again,

in this case, in the war in Ukraine.

A war that from the Government of Spain,

and I would say from Spanish society as a whole, from the very first minute

we have condemned, that we do not support,

that we consider illegal and that, unfortunately,

not only in terms of the cost in human lives, of displaced persons and refugees,

but also from the point of view of people’s pockets,

of the well- being of our fellow citizens,

we are already beginning to suffer. In times of turbulence, in times when there

is a lot of fog and you cannot tell, for many citizens, where the world is heading,

but at the same time there is enormous concern,

I believe that what matters most is that political leaders, that governments,

uphold the principles and

the values that have brought us this far, with decades of peace,

with decades of prosperity and with decades of certainty that allow us to prosper

as countries.