5
Jul
2022
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This is Europe - Debate with the Prime Minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis (debate)
Madam President, the future that the European Union is preparing for the peoples is already living with unemployment, energy poverty, soaring accuracy, inflation and green taxes that finance the green and digital business. This black future has been signed by the European Union and all the governments in Greece, as well as today's New Democracy, which promoted the criminal strategy of the green transition, delignification and the energy market. Now, you are shedding crocodile tears for the accuracy that will gallop even more, as the consequences of the sanctions against Russia that the people pay, as the imports of expensive American liquefied natural gas increase, which is harmful to the environment, but beneficial for the profits of Greek shipowners. This anti-people planning also presupposes the break-up of labour relations, the abolition of collective agreements with a dismantled public health system, exposed to the pandemic. At the same time, the government of New Democracy is asking the people to come to terms with chamois with the benefits-crumbs that in no way cover the huge losses in popular income from the spike in accuracy. These critical problems the Greek prime minister tried to overcome in his speech, presenting a virtual reality. The exit from enhanced surveillance has no basis because the surveillance mechanisms of the European Semester, the bloody surpluses and the memorandum of the Recovery Fund with harsh anti-labour measures and group bonuses live and reign. At the same time, the danger of the escalation of the imperialist conflict in Ukraine, marked by the decisions-fire against the peoples that the Greek government co-signed and welcomed at the NATO summit, is growing. Greece's involvement deepens with military bases, sending troops and weapons, with billions of euros for NATO's needs, with repression against refugees and pushbacks. It turned out to be a myth that the European Union, the United States, NATO are protecting against Turkish aggression, which challenges the sovereignty of Greek islands and paves the way for painful co-exploitation in the Aegean. The Greek people experienced the alternation of the anti-people government from New Democracy/PASOK to SYRIZA, from SYRIZA to New Democracy, and it always comes out damaged. Only the people can save the people. The solution lies in the escalation of the workers' popular struggles for immediate measures, the abolition of VAT, the special tax on fuel, the adjustment clause, with collective agreements, increases in wages and pensions, against the barbaric exploitative system, the imperialist wars and the involvement with disengagement from NATO and the European Union, with power in the hands of the many, the producers of wealth.