What Kostas spoke about.

9

Oct

2024

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Strengthening the security of Europe’s external borders: need for a comprehensive approach and enhanced Frontex support (debate)

Mr President, those who support and attempt to legitimise the genocide of the Palestinian people, the atrocities of the state-occupier Israel, leading to an escalation of imperialist wars in Ukraine and the Middle East through their war economy and arms rally, are jointly responsible for the armies of refugees and migrants. Part of the problem is aggravating factors and certainly not a solution. T…

8

Oct

2024

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Escalation of violence in the Middle East and the situation in Lebanon (debate)

Madam President, the peoples persistently and unceasingly, with massive rallies, condemn the State of Israel and its crimes, the occupation of decades and the one-year genocide of the Palestinian people with 43 000 dead, the occupation of Lebanese and Syrian territories, the bombing, sabotage and new ground invasion of Lebanon, the murder of political leaders, the attacks on Syria with the support…

17

Sep

2024

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State of the Energy union (debate)

Mr President, the letters on energy accuracy sent every now and then by the Greek Prime Minister to Mrs Von der Leyen are a mockery for the people. Because the European Union, the New Democracy government and its predecessors, with their guilty green strategy, are responsible for perpetuating the galloping accuracy in energy, fuel, food and - of course - with a rally of military equipment in prepa…

17

Sep

2024

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Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States (debate)

Putin was just your ally, and you got along and did business together, and together you overthrew the Soviet Union. But now you have your own competition and the people will not pay for it, with their own blood and with their money that is for their own needs.…

17

Sep

2024

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Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States (debate)

Mr President, the peoples are facing the escalation of the imperialist war in Ukraine. The continuation of the Russian invasion, the entry of Ukrainian military forces into Kursk, the direct involvement of the US, NATO and the European Union in the war and the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine for attacks on the Russian mainland create conditions for a generalisation of the war – even with …

23

Apr

2024

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Effective coordination of economic policies and multilateral budgetary surveillance - Speeding up and clarifying the implementation of the excessive deficit procedure – amending Regulation - Requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States – amending Directive (joint debate – Economic governance)

Mr President, the so-called enhanced economic governance framework introduces, in the midst of a deepening recession and high deficits, new, even more reactionary rules of the European Union's Stability Pact. On the backs of the peoples are loaded the burdens of war armaments for NATO and the involvement supported by the government and all other parties, and are among the main causes of Greece's s…

10

Apr

2024

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Screening of third country nationals at the external borders - European Criminal Records Information System - Third Country Nationals - Common procedure for international protection in the Union - Establishing a return border procedure, and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1148 - Asylum and migration management - Addressing situations of crisis and force majeure - Establishment of 'Eurodac' for the comparison of fingerprints for the effective application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013, for identifying an illegally staying third-country national or stateless person and on requests for the comparison with Eurodac data by Member States' law enforcement authorities and Europol for law enforcement purposes (recast) - Union Resettlement Framework - Standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection - Standards for the reception of applicants for international protection (recast) (joint debate - Migration and Asylum package)

Mr President, we condemn the inhumane pact. You call crisis response pre-trial detentions, the file, the taking of biometrics by six-year-old children, with new fences, pushbacks, Frontex and the mockery of voluntary relocations. So you feed circuits and new tragic shipwrecks, as today in Chios with three dead girls. You're sorting out terrorists who aren't destined for on-demand cheap, flexible l…

13

Mar

2024

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Rising anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric and violence: recent attacks in Thessaloniki (debate)

Mr President, we also condemn from this step the attack on two young transgender people by a group of thugs in Thessaloniki. Such unacceptable actions must be dealt with decisively, condemned en masse and isolated. Discrimination, racist attacks and attitudes based on sexual orientation are treated with solidarity, which was demonstrated by popular forces that helped the victims of the attack. The…

12

Mar

2024

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Council and Commission statements - Preparation of the European Council meeting of 21 and 22 March 2024 (debate)

Mr President, the forthcoming European Council is an invitation to escalate the involvement of the European Union and the governments in the imperialist war in Ukraine, even by sending troops, but also in the inconceivable genocide of the Palestinian people by the Israeli state-occupier. The basic direction is the premium of the EU war industry paid by the peoples, while stifling their needs. The …

28

Feb

2024

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Report on the Commission’s 2023 Rule of Law report (A9-0025/2024 - Sophia in 't Veld)

Madam President, while you are talking about the rule of law in the European Union, there are 57 dead, living in memory of an entire people. One year since the predetermined crime in Tempi, guilty of the policy of the European Union served by those who ruled and still govern this country. In the "stool" the four directives of the European Union liberalization of railways, segmentation and commerci…

28

Feb

2024

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Strengthening European Defence in a volatile geopolitical landscape - Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2023 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023 (joint debate - European security and defence)

Madam President, the European Union, together with NATO and the United States, is protagonist at the expense of the peoples in the two-year imperialist war in Ukraine against capitalist Russia, in the genocide of the Palestinian people by the state-occupier Israel, is pouring oil on the fire in the war in Yemen. The CFSP provides billions for equipment, artificial intelligence and ammunition. Also…

26

Feb

2024

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Tackling the inflation in food prices and its social consequences and root causes (debate)

Mr President, the broad popular forces understand that the policy of the European Union is spurring inflation and accuracy. See in the courtyard of the Council building, in Brussels, farmers protesting against the CAP. With this strategy, the green transition, the energy exchange, the Recovery Fund, which all of you voted for, agribusiness and supermarkets are hoarding, wiping out struggling farme…

8

Feb

2024

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Working conditions of teachers in the EU (debate)

Mr President, in Greece the mass demonstrations of teachers together with their pupils and students, all the people, send a clear message to the New Democracy government that the bill on private universities should not be tabled, it has already been rejected. Teachers teach the lesson of the struggle so that it is not a criterion whether their students will study with their parents' wallet. Teache…

7

Feb

2024

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Empowering farmers and rural communities - a dialogue towards sustainable and fairly rewarded EU agriculture (debate)

Madam President, across Europe and in Greece, the grand rural mobilizations incriminate the European Union's CAP and the grey-green transition strategy. These were presented by the European Union as a solution and proved, on the basis of a plan, to be mechanisms for the extermination of struggling farmers. The farmers came outside the European Parliament to the scene of the crime, because here in …

17

Jan

2024

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Rule of Law and media freedom in Greece (debate)

Madam President, the responsibilities of the New Democracy government and the Prime Minister for the surveillance of parties such as the KKE, politicians, journalists, everything, with the systematic use of spyware, are enormous. But all this is the tip of the EU iceberg, which is the dark legislative framework that all governments have shaped over time. In the media, the fact that in Greece and e…

16

Jan

2024

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to reach a ceasefire and the risks of regional escalation (debate)

Mr President, if it is not genocide by the Israeli state or over 100 days of massacre and deportation of the Palestinian people from its territory, then what is it? The elements are irrefutable: 24,000 dead, 70% children, 60,000 wounded, thousands missing and a people facing the threat of famine without food, water, hospitals, medicine, electricity and fuel. This is why we support South Africa’s a…

13

Dec

2023

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EU strategy to assist young people facing the housing and cost of living crisis (topical debate)

Mr President, the European Union and governments are guilty: expensive popular housing, unapproachable rents, soaring accuracy and energy poverty, successive interest rate increases of the European Central Bank, auctions of popular households. New couples who run out by the 15th of the month are unable to open, let alone own a home of their own. They live with their parents. Government housing pro…

11

Dec

2023

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The European Elections 2024 (debate)

Madam President, the European Union is escalating its reactionary strategy for the more effective shielding of its imperialist plans against international competition with the United States and China, but also for the acceleration of anti-people policy in favour of the monopolies. It promotes in this direction reactionary adjustments to the electoral law in view of the European elections, to deepe…

22

Nov

2023

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Humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need for the release of hostages and for an immediate humanitarian truce leading to a ceasefire and the prospects for peace and security in the Middle East (debate)

Mr President, Mr Borrell, you do not need a lawyer's degree to condemn the atrocities of occupying Israel in Gaza. You don't have to. Because they sow death in newborns, children, civilians, women, bombing hospitals, schools, with thousands of dead. One by one, the fake news of the Israeli army that murdered even Israeli civilians collapses, always under the well-known pretexts of self-defense to …

18

Oct

2023

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Mental health at work (debate)

Madam President, the European Union's strategy on mental health at work is only concerned with reducing the cost of workers' psychosocial illnesses, having even estimated it at 400 billion. There is no talk, however, about addressing the source of psychosocial diseases, to which the capitalist exploitative system and the conditions of life and work it creates lead to a significant degree. Inhuman …

16

Oct

2023

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, the Gaza Strip is being ruthlessly bombed in the Middle East. Thousands are dead and wounded. The occupying State of Israel invades Gaza for the umpteenth time in the years of the criminal occupation of the Palestinian territories and the atrocities against the Palestinian people, civilians, young children, with settler atrocities, with its wall of shame, with over 5 000 political…

4

Oct

2023

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Decent Housing for All (topical debate)

Madam President, over 15,000 auctions are planned by the end of the year and thousands of evictions of popular households in Greece for the interests of crows, banks and funds. They intensify pressures, blackmails, provocative demands by means of the laws of governments and the directives of the European Union. Finding a home is impossible with very expensive rents, unapproachable market prices, s…

4

Oct

2023

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Need for a speedy adoption of the asylum and migration package (debate)

Mr. President, we can't let the deadly crime shipwreck in Pylos be forgotten. We are asking for answers that the Greek government, the European Union and Frontex are not giving. The ministerial meetings of the European Union, as well as MED9, confirmed their common understanding of strengthening the repression and sorting of refugees according to the needs of capital. In this direction, the govern…

14

Sep

2023

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Improving firefighters’ working conditions (debate)

Madam President, we have seen great fires and great disasters with deaths in Greece, in Evros, the largest fire in the European Union, in Rhodes, in Attica and elsewhere. Flood in Thessaly that is experiencing a great tragedy with dead and missing. Firefighters are sleepless for days, exhausted, breathing cancer, underpaid and many of them seasonal, due to staff shortages and therefore firebreaks …

12

Sep

2023

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2022 Report on Türkiye (debate)

Mr President, the resolution is tailored to the needs of planning in order to strengthen NATO's south-east wing and anchor Turkey in the Euro-Atlantic camp. This is in the midst of the escalation of the imperialist NATO-Russia conflict in Ukraine for the re-sharing of markets. The resolution serves to speed up the dangerous bazaars in Greek-Turkish, which have been set up under the supervision of …