What Kostas spoke about.

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Sep

2023

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European Defence Industry Reinforcement through common Procurement Act (EDIRPA) (debate)

Madam President, following the partnerships promoted by the European Union for missiles and ammunition, the regulation attempts to shield European war industry groups from their competition with US and Chinese monopolies, which is exacerbated by the prospect of an escalation of the NATO-Russia imperialist war. At the same time that the Greek people are counting dead, missing and homeless due to th…

12

Jul

2023

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State of the SME Union (debate)

Mr President, for the European Union, small and medium-sized enterprises are considered a minority of enterprises, leaving out the vast majority of micro-enterprises in Greece. This large majority for the European Union is considered a structural problem and is generally excluded from financing by the Recovery Fund and the NSRF. The European Union and the Greek government are expanding the tax bas…

12

Jul

2023

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The need for EU action on search and rescue in the Mediterranean (debate)

(EL) Madam President, the Greek Government and Frontex have not yet provided answers to the shipwreck-crime off Pylos with hundreds of victims in a debris that has been under surveillance for at least 16 hours, without raising a state of alarm, in a search and rescue area of Greece. It is a continuing crime, signed by the European Union and Greek governments, of political repression, entrapment, d…

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…

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May

2023

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Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (debate)

Mr President, the directive is a monument to immunity for monopolies. The European Union washes away large business groups and exempts them, even from any formal impact or sanction, for the fact that, in pursuit of maximum profitability, they promote the work galleon against workers, employer crimes, the robbery of their customers and the looting of the environment. The capitalist state, with the …

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May

2023

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Revision of the Stability and Growth Pact (debate)

Mr President, an anti-people multi-tool is being activated at the expense of the people by any government of the next day and in Greece. The Stability and Recovery Pact is reintroduced in conjunction with the Recovery Instrument and the so-called ‘green and digital transition’. For example, in Greece, either with ND or SYRIZA in the government, primary surpluses are foreseen with preconditions for…

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May

2023

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Establishing the Act in support of ammunition production (debate)

Mr President, the war cries of the Commission for the passage of its European offensive industry into a "war economy" signal a new phase of escalation of imperialist antagonisms and "mammoth" war preparations, precipitating new sufferings for the peoples. The billions in increases for faster production of more ammunition and missiles, the extra EU project for armaments – beyond the plans of each M…

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Apr

2023

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EU Rapid Deployment Capacity, EU Battlegroups and Article 44 TEU: the way forward (debate)

Madam President, the Borrell proposal is dangerous. It calls for the European Union's rapid intervention teams to be transformed into the European Union's so-called rapid-deployment capability of up to 5,000 troops initially. This is a broader and faster involvement in the intensified imperialist war in Ukraine and other military operations, with the activation of Article 44 of the Treaty on the F…

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Mar

2023

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Conclusions of the Special European Council meeting of 9 February and preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 March 2023 (debate)

Madam President, the Summit promotes the escalation of armaments, prolonging the imperialist war in Ukraine between NATO and Russia. The European Union, the government of New Democracy in Greece, with the support of the other parties, are bidding to engage in the massacre with bases, weapons and the people paying a heavy bill for the profits of the groups: expensive energy, fuel, food, successive …

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Feb

2023

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One year of Russia’s invasion and war of aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, for a year now the European Union and the governments have been portraying the imperialist war in Ukraine as a one-act project. But it is the result of a long course of escalation of the conflict between NATO, the United States, the European Union and capitalist Russia on the ground of fierce monopolistic antagonisms between them. Victims of the Ukrainian and Russian people, who for …

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Feb

2023

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EU response to the humanitarian situation following the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria (debate)

Madam President, the impact of the powerful earthquakes in Turkey and Syria, coupled with the policy of leaving the peoples immune to the profits of business groups, has led to an untold tragedy with thousands of dead, injured and homeless. We welcome the wave of genuine solidarity of the peoples in which the Greek people participate, as well as the Communist Party of Greece. We now demand the lif…

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Feb

2023

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Preparation of the Special European Council meeting of February, in particular the need to develop sustainable solutions in the area of asylum and migration (debate)

Mr President, the European Union is speeding up the digital file to quickly sort out cheap and flexible refugee workers. Those who "fasten" to the EU capitalist exploitation machine with interstate agreements, each of its member states claims them on its behalf, while for those who do not need to expedite deportations with the eloquent term "returns" in a miserable bargain with their countries of …

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Jan

2023

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report 2022 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report 2022 (debate)

Madam President, the reports are a manual for escalating imperialist wars, which people pay with their blood. The European Union, NATO and the United States are stepping up coordination in their competition with Russia and China. Kalpikoi are the divisions between them into democratic and authoritarian forces – all of which are capitalist. The scope of the monopolies conflict is not only Ukraine, …

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Jan

2023

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Surge of respiratory infections and the shortage of medication in Europe (debate)

Mr President, really, how is it that in Greece of the 30 major pharmaceutical companies there are explosive shortages in elementary analgesics, inhalants and even preparations for specialized treatments? Why are there similar shortcomings in other countries of the European Union? Because medicine is a commodity. Because this is the normality of the laws of the capitalist market and competitiveness…

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Dec

2022

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Tackle the cost of living crisis: increase pay, tax profits, stop speculation (topical debate)

Madam President, the European Union and the governments are trying to disguise the causes of the galloping precision that is torturing the people, but these are not hidden: Hunger wages and pensions with increases constituting reductions; the soaring inflation from the recovery funds and the expansionary policy of the green and digital strategy of the European Union and governments, with plenty of…

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Dec

2022

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Turkish airstrikes on northern Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (debate)

Mr President, Turkey's unacceptable invasion of Syria and Northern Iraq is causing serious consequences for the peoples of these countries, complicating the explosive situation in the wider region and creating conditions for dangerous border changes. The US, the European Union, NATO, as well as Russia, cover and justify the whole operation as an extension of their rivalries in the massacre in Ukra…

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Dec

2022

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Suspicions of corruption from Qatar and the broader need for transparency and accountability in the European institutions (debate) (debate)

Mr President, the matrix that generates corruption with the European Parliament at its core is the European Union of Capital itself. This is where the bribery scandal with Kaili and other former and current MEPs took place. Your resolution on Qatar's laundering was adopted without even a roll-call vote. The European Union, People's Party and Social Democrats, on the graves of thousands of dead wor…

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Nov

2022

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The need for a European solution on asylum and migration including search and rescue (debate)

Mr President, we cannot reconcile ourselves with the shipwrecks and tragedies of uprooted people in the Aegean and the Mediterranean, with their boats becoming a miserable ball between governments. Another "best" practice of the European Union... We are not accustomed to the barbaric repression against them, their many months of entrapment in superstructures-prisons and unacceptable conditions in …

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Nov

2022

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One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Madam President, the eviction of a low-income pensioner from her home in Athens for a debt of EUR 15 000 is savage and challenging. It strips away the lies of the New Democracy government that there are no auctions of primary residences, while it bids in fat words for the vulnerable while together with the European Union and the European Central Bank they implement their goal of 40,000 auctions by…

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Nov

2022

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REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans (debate)

Madam President, the new anti-grassroots EU regulation on RepowerEU is mobilising additional funds from the European Recovery Fund that energy and construction groups will "unspoil" as they will enjoy a huge range of provocative immunities, for the construction of pipelines, RES production infrastructure and energy storage. By invoking the "green" competition race of the European Union with Russia…

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Oct

2022

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Cultural solidarity with Ukraine and a joint emergency response mechanism for cultural recovery in Europe (debate)

Madam President, the European Union is one-sidedly projecting Russia's responsibilities, shrinking the dimensions of a huge problem of destruction of cultural monuments for which it bears equally huge responsibilities. You use the issue with expediency for your war propaganda and you present the disasters as a consequence of the imperialist war in Ukraine distorting reality. The problem is much bi…

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Oct

2022

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Preparation of the European Council meeting of 20-21 October 2022 (debate)

Madam President, the Commission's new package presupposes that the people freeze in the name of reducing non-basic consumption, to ensure sufficiency for large industrialists. The mechanisms of the green transition and liberalisation, which are the causes of soaring energy and fuel prices, are further shielded. Groups are given new incentives to gamble safely on the energy exchange and joint gas o…

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Oct

2022

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Keep the bills down: social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine and the introduction of a windfall tax (debate)

Mr President, really, who are you kidding by claiming that it is only the imperialist war in Ukraine that is to blame for the soaring prices of electricity, fuel, food and inflation? You know very well that the price increase race started in autumn 2021. So let the green transition strategy promoted by the European Union and all governments, imposing the energy exchange, its liberalisation, the tr…

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Oct

2022

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Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States (debate)

Mr President, the report is a roadmap of new tough anti-labour measures on the pretext of the pandemic and the imperialist war in Ukraine. In the name of the highly competitive labour market, it seeks to shield European monopolies against international competition, in the face of the emerging capitalist crisis. Behind declarations without any consideration and guarantee for decent wages and collec…

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Oct

2022

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Access to water as a human right – the external dimension (debate)

Madam President, the beginning and end of the report is the concept of 'water commodity', promoting the profitability of business groups. The declarations of all bourgeois parties on the right to water, as they say, are a fraud. The direction of the European Union, of governments such as New Democracy in Greece, is to boost business activity by covering the bourgeois state and EU funds, on the bas…