On Wednesday 31 May, the speaker of Venezuela's National Assembly and opposition member Julio Borges called on the European Parliament to help his country out of the political and economic crisis in which it has now been plunged for several months.
"We call on the European Parliament to help us establish a democratic agenda", he told the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee. "We need everybody's help to settle the problems in Venezuela (...) What we want is for a country...