Right-wing lawmakers pushed for a tribute to the U.S. conservative influencer who was shot dead.

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday rejected a bid by right-wing factions to hold a minute of silence for slain U.S. conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

The initiative was first proposed by Charlie Weimers, an MEP from the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), as a symbolic measure “to declare that our right to freedom of speech cannot be extinguished,” according to an email chain with dozens of MEPs that was seen by POLITICO.

  • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Yeah im gonna be blunt here, People who are seen as important, die all over the world every day, and Im having trouble drawing a line to why Charlie Kirk has fuck all to do with anything in any country in Europe.

    you know, two countries that might have a reason to be upset for losing someone who WAS important to them, would be Russia and Belarus

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      Im having trouble drawing a line to why Charlie Kirk has fuck all to do with anything in any country in Europe.

      “European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Thursday rejected a bid by right-wing factions”

      That’s the stage the US was at about 15 years ago.