What Kostas spoke about.

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Oct

2022

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The death of Mahsa Amini and the repression of women's rights protesters in Iran (debate)

Mr President, we condemn the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini by the Iranian state, as well as the brutal repression it has carried out against the mass popular mobilizations. The murder of Amini, the dozens of dead, wounded and countless arrests bring to the surface the orgy of state violence, economic, social, religious discrimination that reproduces women's inequality, obscurantist, anachronistic p…

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Sep

2022

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EU response to the increase in energy prices in Europe (debate)

Madam President, a difficult winter is only for the people and not for energy groups. The so-called "European solution", which the European Union and governments are working on, is sewn into the measures of their profitability. It is a big lie that accuracy began with the imperialist war in Ukraine. For a year now prices have taken off because of another so-called "European solution", the green tr…

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Sep

2022

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Surveillance and predator spyware systems in Greece (debate)

Mr President, there can be no jokes about ‘error’ and invocation of secrecy by the New Democracy government in the very serious allegations of the surveillance of Nikos Androulakis, other politicians, journalists and an entire party, the Communist Party of Greece – since there have been several proven wiretaps to his call centre since 2016. It is absolutely hypocritical for the European Union and …

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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 tr…

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Jul

2022

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Loss of life, violence and inhumane treatment against people seeking international protection at the Spanish-Moroccan border (debate)

Madam President, the recent mass slaughter of uprooted people in Melilla, but also the daily atrocities, are the result of the cooperation of the repressive forces of Morocco, Spain and the political repression of the European Union with Frontex – a continuation of the deadly shipwrecks, the pushbacks in the Aegean and the Mediterranean, the superstructures-prisons in countries such as Greece. The…

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Jun

2022

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The EU and the security challenges in the Indo-Pacific (debate)

Mr President, the report reflects the great interests in a region which, according to the United States, will 'to some extent judge the future of the world', and concerns critical energy routes, rare earths and geostrategic countries. The European Union, actively participating with the United States and NATO in the imperialist war in Ukraine, in the conflict with Russia, is also part of the Euro-A…

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Jun

2022

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2021 Report on Turkey (debate)

Madam President, the report describes Turkey as a 'strategic partner' and recognises its 'interests and objectives' in competing with the Greek bourgeoisie for their geostrategic upgrading. It calls on the Turkish state to settle its aspirations through "dialogue and diplomacy", where the Aegean and the Cypriot EEZ will be put as a "main dish" for joint exploitation, which is supported by the US, …

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May

2022

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Madam President, working people's households are experiencing unbearable price increases and deprivations of electricity, fuel and popular consumption items, at the risk of a food crisis. They are experiencing the results of the strategy of the green transition, the imperialist conflict in Ukraine and the successive antagonisms and sanctions. With subsidies and loans for joint orders, the people w…

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May

2022

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The social and economic consequences for the EU of the Russian war in Ukraine - reinforcing the EU’s capacity to act (debate)

Mr President, the solidarity and unified response to Russian blackmail and the ambiguities of expediency cannot hide the fierce contradictions within the European Union between the governments. All scenarios are dictated by the EU strategy of energy liberalisation, the green transition, delignification and the emissions exchange, which had soared prices and energy poverty months before the war and…

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May

2022

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EU preparedness against cyber-attacks following Russia invasion on Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, the intensification of the antagonisms between the United States, NATO and the European Union and Russia are fuelling the escalation of the imperialist conflict in Ukraine and through the so-called cyber warfare, accompanied by the propaganda war and censorship on both sides. Commissioner Schinas’ statement, at the inauguration of the new headquarters of the European Union Agency for…

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May

2022

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Mr President, the great strike struggle of the workers in the monopoly of Cosco in Greece, in the labour galley of the port of Piraeus, for health and safety measures, and collective labour agreements, is just and heroic. They are struggling workers who mourned a few months ago a colleague from an unpreserved crane, and now another colleague was crippled from a height of 12 meters, while the emplo…

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Apr

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Violations of right to seek asylum and non-refoulement in the EU Member States (debate)

Madam President, there have been documented complaints since 2016 about Frontex and about governments, such as Greece and Hungary, about pushbacks, but these still remain unanswered. With proposals for monitoring committees or for changing the head of Frontex, you are leaving his character and mission that is dangerous to the people unaffected. Frontex should be abolished. It is a transnational, m…

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Mar

2022

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Debriefing of the European Council meeting in Paris on 10 March 2022 - Preparation of the European Council meeting 24-25 March 2022 (debate)

Madam President, while the Russian invasion is raging, accompanied by an escalation of armaments and sanctions by the European Union, the United States and NATO, the people are paying a great deal with lives, refugees, expensive fuel, energy and food. The bargains and contradictions in the European Council with the involvement of the United States on the energy embargo on Russia, on joint orders, …

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Mar

2022

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Rising energy prices and market manipulation on the gas market (debate)

Mr President, the imperialist war in Ukraine is inextricably linked to the energy competition between monopolies. Energy accuracy for the people was already at record highs before the war, due to the strategy of the European Union and the Greek governments for the green transition, the liberalisation of energy, the emissions exchange. Fossil fuels were abandoned and imported natural gas became a s…

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2022

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The deterioration of the situation of refugees as a consequence of the Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, the unacceptable Russian invasion of Ukraine, on the basis of its imperialist competition with the United States, NATO and the European Union, is leading, among other things, today to the displacement of millions of people with tragic consequences. Previously, more than 10 million Ukrainian immigrants had been forced to flee their country after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, af…

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Mar

2022

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Russian aggression against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, our condemnation of the invasion of Ukraine by capitalist Russia is coupled with the condemnation of the serial war crimes of the United States, NATO and the European Union against the peoples of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya. The imperialist competition for spheres of influence and resources led to the imperialist war that the peoples pay with lives, refugees and a …

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Feb

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EU-Russia relations, European security and Russia’s military threat against Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, the visible danger of a war on the Russian-Ukrainian border concerns the competition for the sharing of markets and influence between the United States, NATO, the European Union and Russia. But neither side of the imperialist conflict expresses the people's interests. It also goes a long way for the European Union to play the "peace pigeon" when it has led to wars in Afghanistan, Lib…

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Feb

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Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021 (debate)

Mr President, the CFSP report admits that we are in an era of 'peacelessness, growing geopolitical uncertainty, multiple regional conflicts'. He warns that even space will "quickly turn into a military arena." In other words, we are living in the era of the dispute over the primacy between the United States and China and the European Union's and Russia's desire not to lose ground. The EU plans of …

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Jan

2022

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Presentation of the programme of activities of the French Presidency (debate)

Madam President, the programme of the French Presidency is working on a strategic compass, a Euro-army and an arms rally. With the involvement of the Greek government, aggressive planning is being promoted, coveting geostrategic areas in the fierce and dangerous competition for the peoples of the European Union with the USA, China, Russia in the Indo-Pacific and Africa. Consequently, its programme…

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Dec

2021

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Situation at the Ukrainian border and in Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine (debate)

Mr President, developments are a "danger-death" for peoples: Concentration of military forces of NATO, the US and the EU in a conflict configuration and encirclement of their rival Russia. War threats and warnings aimed at Ukraine's NATO membership, and an escalation of the arms race. Tension on the Belarus-Poland border with thousands of stranded refugees, victims of imperialist interventions. Mi…

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Dec

2021

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The 30th anniversary of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and its importance for the future of Russia and Europe (debate)

Mr President, 30 years after the overthrow of socialism in the Soviet Union, anti-communism and the persecution of communists are intensifying. This is weakness, not strength. You're trying to shield the exploitative system you're serving. Your promises of peace and prosperity under capitalism have been disproved. Competitions, wars, interventions murder and uproot peoples. Your bankrupt system sq…

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Nov

2021

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The EU's role in combating the COVID-19 pandemic: how to vaccinate the world (topical debate)

Madam President, the frantic course of the pandemic with the successive records of deaths, cases and intubated people says it all. With patient screening, surgical suspensions, with the vaccination program being carcinogenic in Greece and elsewhere, and with a new lockdown in the European Union. The alibi of the European Union and the Greek government has dried up. The pandemic is no longer unprec…

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Nov

2021

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Outcome of the COP26 in Glasgow (debate)

Mr President, the European Union, governments and NGOs have sown massive illusions that something positive for the people and the environment could result from COP26. The dispute over the height of its targets is the other side of the fierce rivalries of the United States and China for primacy. A war of interests that calls "green" the bombing of the United States, the European Union and NATO, kil…

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Nov

2021

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Madam President, the reactionary design of the European Union is manipulating galleon wages and constant mobility from state to state, which the Commission and governments provocatively call 'fair'. The transfer of non-existent insurance rights from country to country aims to facilitate the transnational gambling of employees' contributions in order to reward green and digital large groups from th…

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2021

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The rise of right-wing extremism and racism in Europe (in light of recent events in Rome) (debate)

Madam President, the concern of the EU and the European Parliament about the rise of the far right and racism in Europe is hypocritical. This proves the miserable construction of the two extremes, the equation of communism with the monster of fascism, regurgitated by the European Union and the governments, the falsification of history, anti-communism and the prohibitions of communist parties. They…