15
Jun
2023
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The water crisis in Europe (debate)
Madam President, since, with the help of the European Union and all the governments, water is a commodity and the people a customer, with the business groups in the sector also treasure the droughts affecting Spain and France, it is the people who pay them both as a consumer and as a taxpayer and as a worker in the sector. Farmers are also hit hard. In Greece, the government of New Democracy, like that of SYRIZA, strengthened the commercialization of water, the operation of state and municipal enterprises with private economic criteria, in partnership with individuals in the liberalized water market, on the basis of the legal framework of the European Union directives. Against them, a strong popular strategic opposition with an even stronger KKE can fight together with the people for cheap, controlled, quality water, with an immediate 30% reduction in the tariffs for unemployed low-wage earners, against the immediate privatisation, the overall commercialization and business operation of state-municipal enterprises, with infrastructure projects, without concession contracts, so that water is a social good and not a commodity.