A French member of the European Parliament demanded that the United States return the Statue of Freedom to France, arguing that America no longer maintains the values that caused France to be given the statue more than a century ago.
The European Parliament member Raphaël Glucksmann stated on Sunday that his country, France, should recover the historical statue after the last decisions of President Donald Trump related to the Russia-Ukraine War, according to France24.
A member of the Socialists and Democrats Group, Glucksmann criticized Trump’s decisions on war, and aimed at the shot of his administration for federal workers and cuts in research institutions.
“We will tell the North -Americans who have chosen the tyrants, to the North -Americans who fired researchers to demand scientific freedom:” Give us the Statue of Freedom again, “Glucksmann said In a convention. “We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be fine here at home.”
In addition, Glucksmann said that France would house those that the research has been reduced, according to France24.
“The second we will say to the North -Americans is:” If you want to say goodbye to your best researchers, if you want to say goodbye to all the people who, through their freedom and their sense of innovation, their taste for doubt and research, have made your country the main power of the world, then we will welcome them, “he said.
It was presented at the port of New York in 1886, the statue of freedom was a gift from the people of France in the United States. The copper statue of a crowned woman with a robe has been seen as a symbol of freedom and welcoming those who immigrant to America. A inscription In the statue he says, “Give me your tired, your poor. Your masses hidden yearn for breathing. “”
Glucksmann is a supporter of Ukraine and has criticized Trump’s changes in North -Americans related to the war, according to France24. Ukraine has been in war with Russia for more than three years after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
Glucksmann’s comments were probably in response to the United States decision To suspend help to UkraineAccording to Politico.
The relationship between the United States and Ukraine has been tense for the last two months after Trump and Vice President JD Vance faced President Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office in February to be to be to be “Discoveried.,
Days after the coup, the Trump administration paused in Ukraine and stopped the intelligence sharing with the country. On March 11, the Trump administration increased the help and intelligence in Ukraine after the country signed that it was open to a high fire of 30 days with Russia, according to PBS.
According to the Washington Post.