6
Jul
2021
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The 70th anniversary of the Geneva Convention (debate)
Madam President, maximum hypocrisy is for the European Union, the governments, the European Parliament to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Geneva Convention, which they are designed to trespass on and bury. Based on the reactionary New Pact on Immigration and Asylum of the European Union, the Greek government makes law the intensification of repression, deportations, the strengthening of the role of Frontex gendarme, with pushbacks in the Aegean, questioning sovereign rights, with asylum procedures that also take away the basic rights of asylum seekers. Denmark is deporting Syrian refugees and assigning asylum procedures to third countries, and in Italy and Spain repression is intensifying. The refugee crisis for the European Union is a tool of geopolitical antagonisms that lead to wars perpetuating the refugee crisis. Its criterion is the provision of cheap exploited workers and the penetration of its groups into markets. We demand asylum procedures in the countries of actual destination in accordance with the Geneva Convention. No long-term entrapment structure. Substantial protection of those recognised refugees who wish to remain in Greece. Isolation of racism and xenophobia. The peoples to clash and overthrow the rotten system that generates wars, exploitation, poverty and refugees: capitalism.