What Kostas spoke about.

7

Oct

2025

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The EU’s role in supporting the recent peace efforts for Gaza and a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, we condemn the pirate attack by Israeli armed forces in international waters, in violation of every concept of international law, as well as the repression, imprisonment and abuse of the volunteer crews of the Global Sumud flotilla. The European Union, like the Greek government, has again proposed a strategic alliance with the occupier state of Israel, legitimizing its criminal atroc…

6

Oct

2025

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Role of EU policies in shaping the European Sport Model (debate)

Mr President, the so-called European sports model of the European Union – like all Greek governments, and today’s – has as its alpha and omega the commercialised sport, the so-called competition law, managers, competing European and global sports competitions, major economic interests. Fixing games, doping, violence by big-owner fan armies, donor hunting, the high-performance mincer, the exhaustio…

11

Sep

2025

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A new vision for the European Universities alliances (debate)

Mr President, these days when universities are reopening, the barbarity jointly promoted by the government and the European Union in Greece, at the expense of students and their families, with the support of the other bourgeois parties, in fulfilling the reactionary Treaty of Bologna, is fully revealed. For students write-offs, with an explosive situation regarding the homelessness of professors, …

9

Jul

2025

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Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26 June 2025 (debate)

Madam President, the incendiary decisions of the European Council are coordinated with the dangerous decisions of the NATO summit, provide for an escalation, an acceleration of war preparations and the business of war. The competition for energy roads, rare earths, green standards is fierce. The hostilities that invoke the conclusions on Gaza and Iran attempt in vain to hide the genocide that Isra…

17

Jun

2025

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EU framework conditions for competitive, efficient and sustainable public transport services at all levels (debate)

Mr President, a debate on public transport in Greece means above all a debate on Tempi and not – after much pressure – a debate for the first time in two and a half years, in order to bring out the obligation, cut and sewn in the context of the cover-up sought by the New Democracy government. And officially the European Union considers a catastrophic accident a crime because of its own policy. It …

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May

2025

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Improving mental health at work (debate)

Mr President, the World Health Organization report on mental health at work cynically states: The treatment of mental disorders is expensive, but more expensive is to leave them incurable. At the same time, the European Union and all governments are shrinking state spending and the network of mental health units to hoard business groups, NGOs, and the responsibility to burden families. Against thi…

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May

2025

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2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye (debate)

Mr President, we condemn the operation to upgrade the pseudo-state by NATO Turkey and the provocative position of two states for the unacceptable legalization of the invasion and occupation of Cyprus for 51 years and while bazaars are developing for the partition of the island. For a long time, in the context of accession to the European Union and now as a strategic partner – contrary to what the …

6

May

2025

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The European Water Resilience Strategy (debate)

Mr President, the report, in the name of water resilience and competitiveness, promotes greater water commercialisation. On the one hand, heavy funding, incentives for European groups to invest in semiconductors, data centres, renewable hydrogen and others, while on the other hand, water savings and expensive tariffs for working people and struggling farmers, without guaranteeing them sufficiency,…

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May

2025

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A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate)

Mr President, the imposition of tariffs by the United States, the exchange of tariffs and countermeasures between the United States and China are part of their competition for primacy in the international capitalist system, in which the European Union and Russia fulfil their own role in favour of monopolies. Trade wars, the hunting of rare earths, energy and commodity sources and transport routes …

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

We think that what is important is that the European Union seeks – beyond the green and digital strategy that did not deliver the profits it expected, and that is why it puts the war economy first, that is why it puts the sacrifices of peoples to pay for their wars forward – to boost the profitability of business groups, of EU companies, in competition with the rest. In any case, the peoples shoul…

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Apr

2025

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EU Preparedness Union Strategy (debate)

Madam President, indulge in inexpensive speeches about peace and give 800 billion from the pockets of the peoples for war. Loans, escape clauses, Eurobonds, the formation of a Euro-army and the sending of military forces to Ukraine serve the dangerous war preparation. All part of the sharp competition with Russia, China, but also with the USA within a Euro-Atlantic camp, for the sharing of markets…

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Mar

2025

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Situation of European academics and researchers in the US and the impact on academic freedom (debate)

Madam President, we denounce the persecution, sentences, threats to academics, researchers and students in the US and in the European Union, because they unwaveringly express their solidarity with the struggling Palestinian people, and condemn the genocide of the State of Israel with the support of the US, the EU and NATO. The attempt to terrorize the repression failed because the peoples are on t…

11

Mar

2025

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Deteriorating situation in Gaza following the non-extension of the ceasefire (debate)

Madam President, Israel's continued aggression and the non-extension of the ceasefire in Gaza is leading to the extermination of Palestinians, who do not have access to food and electricity. It is a continuation of the murderous operations and deportation of Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. This "job" Netanyahu called on Trump to end, that is, to expel Palestinians from Gaza and t…

11

Mar

2025

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European Council meetings and European security (joint debate)

Madam President, neither willful nor weak, as its apologists claim, has the European Union proved to be, in order to escalate its war preparations in competition with Russia and China, and in the midst of growing contradictions with the United States. The cynicism on camera about sharing the prey of Ukraine's rare earths and energy transportation routes pulverized the pretexts of both sides. Eight…

11

Feb

2025

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Political crisis in Serbia (debate)

Madam President, massive and months-long mobilizations for the 14 dead in Novi Sad. As with the crime at Tempi in Greece, so in Serbia, the safety of workers' passengers was sacrificed to the cost-benefit balance, a key criterion for the European Union's progress in Serbia's accession reports. The resignation of Prime Minister Vučević was not the result of supposed fragility, as the forces of soci…

10

Feb

2025

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the need for the European Union to contribute to resolving the humanitarian crisis of persons missing in wars and conflicts (debate)

Mr President, only in Ukraine do you see missing persons. For the thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, not a word. Fifty-one years after the Turkish invasion and occupation of Cyprus, which also led to thousands of dead, missing and displaced people. It is unacceptable after so many years of families of missing persons with their associations in Cyprus and Greece to shoulder the burden, not only of …

22

Jan

2025

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EU financing through the LIFE programme of entities lobbying EU institutions and the need for transparency (debate)

Madam President, today's debate, in the midst of hollow and inexpensive reports of transparency, cannot cover up the stench that is emerging in the European Parliament, the European Union, the Commission of lobbies, the NGOs that are trading for the interests of the groups, the side of the scarred amendments that are dripping billions of euros. The examples are many and heavy the bill people pay i…

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Jan

2025

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Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate)

Madam President, 5 000 refugees and migrants have arrived on the coast of southern Crete in Greece since the impoverished last year. Most of them on the small island of Gavdos. Floating coffins, repeated shipwrecks as the next dead shipwreck, such as that of Pylos. Port nude from suitable rescue boats, lack of financial resources to receive and support them from the European Union and the governme…

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Jan

2025

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Ceasefire in Gaza - the urgent need to release the hostages, to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and to pave the way for a two-state solution (debate)

Mr President, the ceasefire in Gaza is fragile. The aggressiveness of the state-occupier Israel and the escalating antagonisms in the Middle East are here. The Israeli crimes of genocide against the Palestinian people are not time-barred. Out of place and time is the position that change of government in the United States is a factor of peaceful re-sharing of the world. The pistol remains on the h…

18

Dec

2024

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Challenges facing EU farmers and agricultural workers: improving working conditions, including their mental well-being (debate)

Mr President, the European Union's criminal policy against struggling farmers is now hypocritically concerned about their mental health. It and its governments, all bourgeois parties promote all revised versions of the CAP and accelerate the concentration and centralisation of land production for the benefit of big farmers and agri-food groups. They finance the war economy, impose sanctions and lo…

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Dec

2024

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Toppling of the Syrian regime, its geopolitical implications and the humanitarian situation in the region (debate)

Mr President, the imperialist intervention and the advancing partition of an independent state, Syria, have been initiated in the Middle East by the United States, the European Union, NATO, Turkey and Israel. They are a continuation of the genocide of the Palestinian people by the state-occupier Israel, the attacks against the Lebanese people, the threats against Iran. The US, the European Union, …

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Nov

2024

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Continued escalation in the Middle East: the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank, UNRWA’s essential role in the region, the need to release all hostages and the recent ICC arrest warrants (debate)

25

Nov

2024

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Condemning the illegal unilateral declaration of independence of the secessionist entity in Cyprus and all efforts to legitimise it and reaffirming the need for European solidarity - 41 years after (debate)

Mr President, fifty years now the crime of invasion, occupation by Turkey in 37% of the territory of the Republic of Cyprus, with accomplices NATO, the USA and the European Union, of which Cyprus is a Member State. A country crushed in imperialist antagonisms as a Euro-Atlantic bridgehead, British NATO bases as a base for imperialist wars, dangerous political-military agreements with the United St…

14

Nov

2024

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Enhancing Europe’s civilian and defence preparedness and readiness (debate)

Madam President, Mr Niinistö's report is a cynical manual of war preparation, at a time of more conflict and since the end of the Second World War. The aim of the European Union is the psychological preparation of peoples to face an environment of danger and instability with their only victims. To get used to living in the world of imperialist antagonisms and wars between the USA, NATO, the Europe…

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Oct

2024

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Need to strengthen rail travel and the railway sector in Europe (debate)

Mr President, the prescribed crime of Tempi in Greece with 57 dead has irreparably exposed not only the New Democracy government, but also the previous ones. All their responsible ministers bear heavy responsibilities for the fact that the railway is bare of safety and fire safety systems, "danger-death" for passengers and workers. But the same miserable situation prevails throughout the European …